BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR98-340
ENTRY:: December 12, 1998
ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science
TITLE:: Hey, You Got Your Language In My Operating System!
TYPE:: Technical Report (paper)
REVISION:: 1
AUTHOR:: Howell, Jon
AUTHOR:: Montague, Mark
DATE:: December 1998
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email <reports@cs.dartmouth.edu>
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, write to
       Technical Report Librarian
       Department of Computer Science
       Dartmouth College
       6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
       Hanover, NH 03755-3510
       USA
RETRIEVAL:: Compressed Postscript at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR98-340.ps.Z
RETRIEVAL:: PDF at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR98-340.pdf
ABSTRACT:: 
Several projects in the operating systems research community suggest a
trend of convergence among features once divided between operating
systems and languages. We describe how partial evaluation and
transformational programming systems apply to this trend by providing a
general framework for application support, from compilation to run-time
services. We contend that the community will no longer think of
implementing a static collection of services and calling it an
operating system; instead, this general framework will allow
applications to be flexibly configured, and the ``operating system''
will simply be the application support that is supplied at run-time.
END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR98-340