is a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Crete, where he received a B.Sc. degree. He has worked at A.C.R.I. in Lyon, France, participating in the design and implementation of an OSF/1 based operating system for the company's supercomputer. He joined ICS-FORTH in 1993. His interests include operating systems, parallel and distributed programming and computer architecture.
The authors can be contacted at {markatos, dramit}@ics.forth.gr. or at their postal address at Institute of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH, Science and Technology Park of Crete, Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385, GR 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece.