... UniversityPittsburgh, PA 15213Appeared in Proceedings of the 11th Operating Systems Principles,November, 1987AbstractMach is a multiprocessor operating system being implemented at Carnegie-Mellon University. ... accessed using these techniques.8.1. Emulating Operating System EnvironmentsDuring the 1960’s the notion of a virtual machine base for operating systems development became commerciallypopular. ... haveundergone dramatic expansion in size, scope and complexity. The Alto operating system [22], a workstation operating system of the early 70’s, occupied approximately 19K bytes, including code...