%T Hey, You Got Your Language In My Operating System!
%A Jon Howell
%A Mark Montague
%R Technical Report PCS-TR98-340
%I Dartmouth College, Computer Science
%C Hanover, NH
%D December 1998
%U http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR98-340.ps.Z
%X
 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.