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Alessandro Forin

Researcher at Microsoft

Publications -  91
Citations -  3231

Alessandro Forin is an academic researcher from Microsoft. The author has contributed to research in topics: Interface (computing) & Control reconfiguration. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 91 publications receiving 3086 citations. Previous affiliations of Alessandro Forin include Samsung & Carnegie Mellon University.

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UNIX as an Application Program.

TL;DR: The implementation of Unix as a multithreaded application program running on the Mach kernel is described and the rationale, design, implementation history and performance of the system is presented.
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Highly componentized system architecture with loadable virtual memory manager

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a loadable virtual memory manager for a computer operating system capable of supporting application programs running in a computer having a working memory, the operating system including a kernel resident in the working memory at run time, and the loadable VM manager resident at link time outside of working memory.
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Lock-free methods and systems for accessing and storing information in an indexed computer data structure having modifiable entries

TL;DR: A lock-free method and system for accessing information in an indexed computer data structure may include a lookup procedure, an insertion procedure, a removal and replacement procedure, and a release procedure as discussed by the authors.
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Efficient context saving and restoring in a multi-tasking computing system environment

TL;DR: In this article, the processor state information is stored in a co-processor to enable context switch in a subsequent program for execution, when the context switched out program is subsequently context switched in, the stored processor information is loaded in preparation for successfully resuming the program at the point in which execution was previously halted.