ChorusOS 4.0 Introduction

How This Book is Organized

Part I introduces the product and its components, and explains how the product can be used.

Part II explains how to use the ChorusOS operating system.

Chapter 2, Using ChorusOS explains the use of the ChorusOS operating system.
Chapter 3, Configuring and Tuning explains how to configure and tune a ChorusOS operating system.

Part III describes how to develop an application that runs on the ChorusOS operating system.

Chapter 4, Programming Overview is an overview of the tasks involved in developing an application.
Chapter 5, Using Actors explains how actors are used in an application.
Chapter 6, Multithreaded Programming with the ChorusOS Operating System explains to how use the multithreading services provided in the ChorusOS operating system.
Chapter 7, Memory Management explains how to use the memory management services provided in the ChorusOS operating system.
Chapter 8, Inter-actor Communication explains how to use the inter-actor communication services provided in the ChorusOS operating system.
Chapter 9, Time Management explains how to use the time management services provided in the ChorusOS operating system.

Part IV describes debugging and performance profiling on the ChorusOS operating system.

Chapter 10, System and Application Debugging explains how to debug the ChorusOS operating system and applications.
Chapter 11, Performance Profiling explains how to analyze the performance of the ChorusOS operating system and its applications by generating a performance profile report.

The Glossary is a list of words and phrases found in this book and their definitions.