School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia
National ICT Australia, Sydney,
Australia
A multi-server, multi-personality operating system has often been seen as the holy grail of the micro-kernel base systems research agenda. Unfortunately to date there hav been limited success in achieving this grand vision, and it is no longer a hot-topic in the operating systems community despite a recent renaissance of micro-kernels in general. In this paper I argue that new problems exist that motivate the need for such an operating system structure, and that recent advances in technology allow such a project to succeed now, where it had failed in the past. Finally I out line a set of research to be undertaken to attack this problem.
@inproceedings{Leslie_06,
author = {Ben Leslie},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Object Systems and Software Architectures },
title = {{GrailOS}: A micro-kernel based, multi-server, multi-personality operating system},
year = {2006},
month = {Jan},
address = {Victor Harbor, South Australia, Australia}
}