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Contemporary operating systems still appear as huge monolithic objects. Each attempt to explain one of them's architecture typically results in the tedious enumeration of a large number of mutually depending features. To overcome that situation, a discipline on system architecture should be established aimed at the provision of understandable construction, composition, and behaviour rules. In the following we outline such a discipline as a framework for defining and handling functional units, and provide guidelines on how to fill them up with the required content resp. organize their execution.
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Wettstein, H.D. (1991). The explainable operating system. In: Karshmer, A., Nehmer, J. (eds) Operating Systems of the 90s and Beyond. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024552
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