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Operating systems: why object-oriented?
Proceedings Third International Workshop on Object Orientation in Operating Systems
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The implementor of an operating system service faces inherent dilemmas in choosing implementation strategies. A new approach to operating system design is emerging in which, rather than attempting to hide these dilemmas, they are exposed to clients, using a meta-protocols. Objectoriented programming techniques play an important role in enabling meta-protocols to expose these dilemmas to the client in a principled and modular fashion.
doi:10.1109/iwooos.1993.324930
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