SPIN---an extensible microkernel for application-specific operating system services

Brian N. Bershad, Craig Chambers, Susan Eggers, Chris Maeda, Dylan McNamee, Przemysław Pardyak, Stefan Savage, Emin Gün Sirer
1995 ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review  
Application domMns such as multimedia, databases, and parallel computing, require operating system services with high performance and high functionality. Existing operating systems provide fixed interfaces and implementations to system services and resources. This makes them inappropriate for applications whose resource demands and usage patterns are poorly matched by the services provided. The SPIN operating system enables system services to be defined in an application-specific fashion
more » ... an extensible microkernel. It offers applications fine-grained control over a machine's logicM and physical resources through run-time adaptation of the system to application requirements.
doi:10.1145/202453.202472 fatcat:misa2gl5cff2bmobqtpsiy4aze