SchemeStation Functional Specification


Document formatted by vherva at Fri Apr 24 11:23:41 1998 on the host schemestation. This document is produced by the SchemeStation project during the Tik-76.115 course.

  1. Introduction
    1. Background
    2. Project motivation
    3. Target Users
    4. Terminology
    5. The Structure and Scope of This Document
  2. General description
    1. Virtual machine and Scheduler
    2. Agents and heaps
    3. Kernel agent
    4. Compiler
    5. Messaging, Networking and Addressing
    6. Terminal
    7. Debuging and monitoring the system
    8. Object server
    9. Applications
  3. Functionality
    1. Initial Boot-Up
      1. Purpose
      2. User action
    2. System shutdown
    3. Invoking a Terminal
    4. Compiling Scheme programs
    5. Debugging agents, monitoring the system, using object server and sending messages to the agents
  4. External Interfaces
    1. Non-SCHEMESTATION Domain
    2. External agents
  5. Other requirements
    1. Documentation
    2. Portability
    3. Error recovery
    4. Usability
    5. Extensibility
    6. Maintainability
    7. The Performance of the system
    8. Quality Criteria
  6. Summary
  7. References:

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