Using Mobile Code to Control Native Execution of Distributed Unix ?

This paper presents MOS, a hybrid mobile/native code architecture where interpreted mobile code (messengers expressed in the MM language) is used to control the execution of native code. This results in the mobile code interpreters becoming microkernels. Interpreted messengers are responsible for resource allocation in the network i.e., they are the glue between remote nodes, while CPU intensive tasks are executed by native code targeted at some speciic hardware architecture. We describe the MOS support for native code execution and an implementation done at the University of Geneva where we demonstrated the native execution of a UNIX process under interpreted mobile code control.