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OS/2 NEWS: IBM and Seoul Nat. Univ. announce microkernel agreement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tsipple@vnet.IBM.COM)
Fri Sep 1 10:07:50 1995
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 07:14:07 GMT
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Date received: 1995 August 30
Date posted: 1995 September 1
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IBM AND SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCE MICROKERNEL RESEARCH AGREEMENT
AUSTIN, TX., August 28, 1995 . . . IBM and Seoul National University
(SNU) have entered into an agreement in which SNU will exploit the IBM
Microkernel for research projects and educational purposes. The IBM
Microkernel will play an important part in the computer engineering
department's research in the field of real-time for multimedia.
"The IBM Microkernel is widely recognized as a versatile and powerful
platform ideal for the research community," said Lee Reiswig, general
manager, IBM Personal Software Products division. "This agreement
continues our efforts to encourage cooperation between educational
and industrial organizations in the microkernel field."
Under the agreement, IBM will make its microkernel available to SNU,
which will utilize faculty as well as graduate students in the research
activities. The research will be led by SNU Professors Yookun Cho,
Heonshik Shin and Sanglyul Min.
"We are very excited to be a part of this leading-edge research group
and we expect that the education and operating system research
conducted at SNU will greatly benefit from the microkernel technology
of IBM," said Professor Cho.
"We also expect close cooperation with other research groups
participating in the microkernel research."
The students at SNU will benefit from the agreement by having the
opportunity to study and work with the microkernel in class and to
develop operating system technology and major system software technology
based on the microkernel. SNU may also broaden the scope of its
research as possibilities of using the IBM Microkernel in other research
areas appear.
IBM has signed microkernel research agreements with six other
universities and research institutes in the last five months: The
University of Notre Dame, Carnegie Mellon University, Oregon Graduate
Institute, France's IRISA (University of Rennes), and the Universities
of California at Riverside and Irvine. In addition, the Open Software
Foundation Research Institute is evaluating the IBM Microkernel and
providing feedback and consultation. IBM has licensed its microkernel
technology to Goldstar, Digital Equipment Corporation, Trusted
Information Systems, Inc., Komatsu of Japan and the Republic of China's
Institute for Information Industry.
The IBM Microkernel provides a new way to structure system software by
reducing complexity and increasing the range of hardware and system
configurations that are supported by an operating system implementation.
It provides support for the microprocessor, memory management,
initialization and devices in the hardware.
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