Charalambous, C2014-12-152014-12-152014-12-15http://hdl.handle.net/10539/15982Presented in part fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Msc in engineering in the faculity of electrical engineering' University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg March 1984This dissertation outlines the addition of memory management facilities to the Standard Multitasking operating System ( S M T ) jareal - time kernel which provids a multitasking environement for application tasks written in the high - level language The c o n c e p t s and d e s i g n p h i l o s o p h y u s e d to a c h i e v e t h i s o b j e c t i v e as we l l as t h e u n d e r l y i n g c o n c e p t s o£ r e a l - t i m e pr o g r ammi n g a r e d i s c u s s e d . An i m p l e m e n t a t i o n f o r t h e s t a n d a r d memory management u n i t of t h e D i g i t a l E q u i p m e n t C o r p o r a t i o n PDP-11 s e r i e s i s d e s c r i b e d and an e v a l u a t i o n t£>5C in an o n - l i n e p r o c e s s c o n t r o l a p p l i c a t i o n is d i s c u s s e d .enThesis