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The Design and Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels

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List <strong>of</strong> Abbreviations<br />

ABI<br />

ASIC<br />

CAS<br />

CPU<br />

DMA<br />

DSL<br />

DSO<br />

ELF<br />

FFS<br />

FS<br />

GPL<br />

i386<br />

IPC<br />

Application Binary Interface: <strong>The</strong> interface between<br />

two binaries. ABI-compatible binaries can interface<br />

with each o<strong>the</strong>r.<br />

Application-Specific Integrate Circuit<br />

Compare-And-Swap; atomic operation<br />

Central Processing Unit; in this document <strong>the</strong> term<br />

is context-dependant. It is used to denote both <strong>the</strong><br />

physical hardware unit or a virtual concept <strong>of</strong> a CPU.<br />

Direct Memory Access<br />

Domain Specific Language<br />

Dynamic Shared Object<br />

Executable <strong>and</strong> Linking Format; <strong>the</strong> binary format<br />

used by NetBSD <strong>and</strong> some o<strong>the</strong>r modern Unix-style<br />

operating systems.<br />

Berkeley Fast File System; in most contexts, this can<br />

generally be understood to mean <strong>the</strong> same as UFS<br />

(Unix File System).<br />

File System<br />

General Public License; a s<strong>of</strong>tware license<br />

Intel 32-bit ISA (a.k.a. IA-32)<br />

Inter-Process Communication

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