Kronos: Processor Family for High-Level Languages

Dmitry N. Kuznetsov (1) , Alexey E. Nedorya (2) , Eugene V. Tarassov (3) , Vladimir E. Philippov (4) , Marina Ya Philippova (5)

1 Unknown
2 Veberi Ltd.
3 Intel
4 A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems [Novosibirsk]
5 xTech Ltd.

The article describes the history of the Kronos project that took place in the middle of the 1980s in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, and was devoted to creating the first Russian 32-bit processor, Kronos. The basic principles of high-level languages oriented architecture design are presented by the example of the Kronos processors family architecture. The article contains a short review of the original multiuser multitask operation system, Excelsior, that was designed and implemented within the project and used for the Kronos family processors.

Mots clés: Kronos; Modula-2; 32-bit processors; high-level languages oriented architecture; OS Excelsior

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Dmitry N. Kuznetsov, Alexey E. Nedorya, Eugene V. Tarassov, Vladimir E. Philippov, Marina Ya Philippova. Kronos: Processor Family for High-Level Languages. 1st Soviet and Russian Computing (SoRuCom), Jul 2006, Petrozavodsk, Russia. pp.266-272, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-22816-2_32⟩. ⟨hal-01568396⟩