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STATE REPRESENTATION IN THE ECS SYSTEM

A general storage allocator provided arbitrary sized blocks of contiguous space in ECS With the exception of files, each ECS system object was represented in a single block. An MOT (Master-Object-Table) provided the absolute ECS addresses of the representation of each ECS object. A capability for an object pointed to the object by giving its MOT index.

 

Paul McJones
1998-06-22