Hardware/software cooperation in the iAPX-432
Justin R. Rattner · 1982
The Intel iAPX-432 is an object-based microcomputer system with a unified approach to the design and use of its architecture, operating system, and primary programming language. The concrete architecture of the 432 incorporates hardware support for data abstraction, small protection domains, and language-oriented run-time environments. It also uses its object-orientation to provide hardware support for dynamic heap storage management, interprocess communication, and processor dispatching.