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

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Brian N. Bershad,

Craig Chambers,

Przemysław Pardyak,

Emin Gün SirerAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 29, Issue 1

Pages 74 - 77

https://doi.org/10.1145/202453.202472

Published: 11 January 1995 Publication History

Abstract

Application domains 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 through an extensible microkernel. It offers applications fine-grained control over a machine's logical and physical resources through run-time adaptation of the system to application requirements.

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