Table Of ContentSUN TECHNICAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
OTHER BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY:
The NeWS Book
An Introduction to the Network/extensible Window System
By James Gosling, David S.H. Rosenthal, and Michelle J. Arden
BOOKS IN PROGRESS:
Sun Operating System
RPC Programming
Introduction to SPARC Technology
CAD /CAM on Sun Workstations
System Administrator's Guide to Sun Workstations
Basic Networking on Sun Workstations
Beginner's Guide to Sun Workstations
Mark Hall
John Barry
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Hall,Mark
The SunTechnology Papers / Mark Hall, John Barry.
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Includes index.
ISBN-13:978-0-387-97145-2
1. Computer systems 2. Computer workstations
I. Barry, John II. Title III. Series
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
The Technology of Sun M icrosystems ix
SECTION I • Software
1 The Open Network Computing Environment 3
Larry Garlick, Robert Lyon, Louis Delzompo, Brent Callaghan
2 SunOS on SPARC 13
Steve Kleiman, Dock Williams
3 NSE Highlights 29
William Courington, Jonathan Feiber, Masahiro Honda
4 Optimizing Compilers for SPARC 41
Steven S. Muchnick
5 Sun's Compiler Technology 69
Steven S. Muchnick, Richard Schell
SECTION II • Hardware
6 SPARC: Scalable Processor Architecture 75
Robert B. Garner
7 SPARCstation 1: Beyond the 3M Horizon 101
Andreas V. Bechtolsheim, Edward H. Frank
8 SCRAM Cache in the Sun-4/110 125
Ed Kelly
9 DOS on the Sun386i 131
John Lazarus, Jim Lerner
10 Address Space in the Sun386i 141
John Lazarus
vi CONTENTS
Networking
SECTION III •
11 A Framework for Network Security 147
Bradley Taylor
12 TOPS: An Introduction 153
Gary Stroud
13 Network Applications and NeWS 163
James Gosling, David Rosenthal, Michelle Arden
14 Network Bootstrap Loading 177
Robert E. Gilligan
15 Network Programming Made Simple 187
Bradley Taylor
Window Systems and the User Interface
SECTION IV •
16 OPEN LOOK: Industry Outlook/Overview 195
Jon Kannegaard
17 OPEN LOOK Toolkits 205
Richard Probst
18 SunLink CG3270: A NeWS Application
Implementation 225
Grant Tegtmeier
19 Painter: A Simple NeWS Program 237
David LaV allee
Index 239
Acknowledgments
The authors of the many articles in this collection are the most significant
and obvious contributors to this book. In addition to them, an excellent, if
unheralded, team has been involved in the production of this book and of
the entire Sun Technical Reference Library.
Our editor at Springer-Verlag, Gerhard Rossbach, has been of invalu
able assistance. During the start-up phase of this project, he remained
calm, pleasant, and insightful through periods of considerable frustration.
His demeanor contrasted nicely with the enthusiasm of Bill Gladstone of
Waterside Productions, who has been an avid participant in this book's
publication.
The book would not exist were it not for the original work done for the
Sun Technology journal. For that we are deeply in debt to Andrea Bryck,
Carol Mellentin-Kupec, Kathy Webster, and Sandy Meltzer. Piper Cole
expertly guided us through the complexities of contracts, assuring fairness
and security for all parties involved.
Peter Tucker designed the cover. His aesthetic sense and eye for
detail have been vital to the development of the Sun Technical Reference
Library.
We'd also like to thank Ed Zander and Jean Richardson for their
continuing support of our publishing plans. In particular, our former tech
nical advisor, Bernie Lacroute, deserves our sincere gratitude for providing
the wherewithal to achieve our goals. Our new advisor, Bill Joy, is also high
on the list of people we want to thank for advice and encouragement.
The design and production team at Online Press and the folks at
Applied Graphics Technologies have demonstrated that they can produce
quality work, despite our demand for exceptionally fast turnaround.
Many other people contributed at various points along the way, in
cluding Rich Wyckoff, Midori Chan, Cari Towne, Carl Swirsding, and
Nancy Brown. To these people and others, the editors of this book are
grateful.
Introduction
The Technology of Sun M icrosystems
Two years ago, Sun Microsystems began publishing a quarterly tech
nical journal, Sun Technology: The Journal for Sun Users. Since then,
its pages have explored in detail diverse technology and products
relating to Sun. The journal's technically sophisticated readers are
likely to apply the information published in the journal to their work.
Sun Technology has been written by technologists for technologists.
In the pages of The Sun Technology Papers, you will find an
extensive selection of those articles. No other single volume offers you
such a broad view of Sun-related technology and products. Yet this
sweeping embrace of subjects does not diminish the level of detail in
this collection. Short of Sun's 40 pounds or so of documentation, no
other single source provides as deep and broad an understanding of
Sun technology as this book does.
Because Sun is a key developer in so many areas of computer
technology, the book comprises four general sections. The first, "Soft
ware," includes chapters on Open Network Computing, Sun's compil
ers, SunOS and SPARC, and the Network Software Environment. The
"Hardware" section covers SPARC in great detail and includes the
most in-depth examination of the popular SPARCstation 1. This sec
tion also contains chapters on the Sun386i workstation.
The "Networking" section examines five distinct issues: network
security, PC-to-workstation networks, window systems and networks,
network administration, and network programming. The concluding
section addresses the interfaces and window systems. This section
delineates the technical and historical issues involved in these areas of
technology as well as practical applications and examples.
The Sun Technology Papers is a snapshot of the ongoing techni
cal development occurring at Sun. Like any good portrait, the work
has enough detail and substance to interest technically inclined, criti
cal-minded readers. But like a photograph, it is inevitably incomplete.
Even if panoramic in scope, it has borders. Time also puts boundaries
on such a book. Development does not stand still at Sun.
x Introduction
Some of these chapters are important because they are the final
word on key technology. Some are provocative because they deal with
controversial ideas or products. A few chapters may be crucial to
anyone evaluating a major purchase of workstations. Some chapters
may give you just that right amount of information to solve a problem.
Together, this collection is the ultimate, concise statement on Sun
technology.
For those of you who find the articles in this book of value and
want to receive the magazine from which they came, please contact
the editors at
Mark Hall, John Barry
SunTechnology
2550 Garcia Avenue, MS/6-14
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