Universal Continuous Media I/O: Design and Implementation
Charles D. Cranor · Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis) · 1994
The problem this paper addresses is how to modify an existing operating system's I/O subsystem to support new high-speed networks and high-bandwidth multimedia applications that will play an important role in future computing environments. The proposed I/O subsystem is called universal continuous media I/O (UCM I/O). This paper will cover the preliminary design of UCM I/O, some of the trade-offs and issues that need to be addressed in order to implement UCM I/O, and a a summary of work in progress. This work supported by ARPA, NSF, Ascom Timeplex, BNR, Goldstar, NEC America, NTT, Southwestern Bell, SynOptics, and Tektronix. UNIVERSAL CONTINUOUS MEDIA I/O: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION Charles D. Cranor [email protected] +1 314 935 4203 Gurudatta M. Parulkar [email protected] +1 314 935 4621 1. Introduction As computers become more common and powerful, new applications are being proposed. Applications in areas such as distributed computing, imaging, and multimedia are becoming...