Thomas Anderson.
The Case for Application-Specific Operating Systems. Proc.
Third Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems (WWOS), April 1992.
Abstract:
Computer systems of today have the potential for vastly improved application performance. Advances in hardware technology have led to systems with more, faster processors, higher bandwidth networks, and larger amounts of primary, secondary, and tertiary storage. Relative to systems of only a decade ago, improvements of at least two orders of magnitude have occurred in each of these areas, and it appears likely that the next decade will see equally large improvements. Recent evidence suggests that these trends will require re-thinking the traditional role of operating systems. Increasingly, applications programmers and compiler writers have found that achieving the performance potential of modern computer systems requires control over the physical resources of the machine.