2016/11/23 by Bobby Powers, John Vilk, Emery D. Berger · 1 voice
Computer Science · #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques #Security and Verification in Computing #cs.OS #cs.PL
paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/3037697.3037727
openalex created_date 2016/11/30 · openalex publication_date 2017/04/04 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Applications written to run on conventional operating systems typically depend on OS abstractions like processes, pipes, signals, sockets, and a shared file system. Porting these applications to the web currently requires extensive rewriting or hosting significant portions of code server-side because browsers present a nontraditional runtime environment that lacks OS functionality.