MagicEight: System Description

John A. Watlington
MIT Media Laboratory

September 28, 1999

DRAFT

• Contents
• Introduction
• The MagicEight Virtual Machine
  • Naming and Protection
    • Scoping
    • Persistent Storage Management
  • Resource Management
    • Distributed Aspect
    • User Primitives
    • Intranode Messages
    • Resource Request Routing
  • Streams
  • Instructions
  • Task Scheduling and Fault-Tolerance
    • Eduction
    • Fault-Tolerance
• Data Structures
  • Capabilities
  • Streams and Stream Access Patterns
    • External Interface
    • Internal Interface
  • Parameter Passing
    • Predefined Parameter Types
    • Caller Software Interface
    • Passing of Parameters to Software Functions
    • Passing of Parameters to Hardware Functions
  • Tokens
• References