The persistent relevance of the local operating system to global applications

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  title={The persistent relevance of the local operating system to global applications},
  author={Jay Lepreau and Bryan Ford and Mike Hibler},
  booktitle={EW 7},
  year={1996},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:10027108}
}
This paper outlines the supporting arguments for these views and describes an OS design that supports secure encapsulation of the foreign processes that will be increasingly prevalent in tomorrow's distributed systems.
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