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IMPLEMENTATION OF SOFTWARE FAULT TOLERANCE IN THE INTEL 80286 PROCESSOR

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Date Issued:
1987
Summary:
This thesis analyzes how the architecture of the Intel 80286 microprocessor may be used to implement fault tolerant software structures. The Multi-Micro Programming Line, MML, and the Intel 80286 kernel, K286, are used as tools to illustrate the implementation of software fault tolerance in an 80286 environment. The recovery metaprogram approach is supported by software layers which use the privilege levels in the 80286. Implementation of recovery blocks, N-version programming, exceptions, and conversations using a recovery metaprogram are covered. While the details are specific to the 80286 architecture, the general results apply to any architecture with three or more rings of privilege and a segmented virtual memory using descriptors.
Title: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SOFTWARE FAULT TOLERANCE IN THE INTEL 80286 PROCESSOR.
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Name(s): OZAKI, BRENDA.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Fernandez, Eduardo B., Thesis advisor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1987
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 113 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis analyzes how the architecture of the Intel 80286 microprocessor may be used to implement fault tolerant software structures. The Multi-Micro Programming Line, MML, and the Intel 80286 kernel, K286, are used as tools to illustrate the implementation of software fault tolerance in an 80286 environment. The recovery metaprogram approach is supported by software layers which use the privilege levels in the 80286. Implementation of recovery blocks, N-version programming, exceptions, and conversations using a recovery metaprogram are covered. While the details are specific to the 80286 architecture, the general results apply to any architecture with three or more rings of privilege and a segmented virtual memory using descriptors.
Identifier: 14399 (digitool), FADT14399 (IID), fau:11200 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1987.
Subject(s): Fault-tolerant computing
Intel 80286 (Microprocessor)
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