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It's time for operating systems to rediscover hardware
Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich A glance at this year's OSDI program shows that Operating Systems are a small niche topic for this conference, not even meriting their own full session. This is unfortunate because good OS design has always been driven by the underlying hardware, and right now that hardware is almost unrecognizable from ten years ago, let alone from the 1960s when Unix was written.
Even the little publishable OS work that is not based on Linux still assumes the same simplistic hardware model (essentially a multiprocessor VAX) that bears little resemblance to modern reality. Mothy joined the Computer Science Department ETH Zurich in January 2007 and was named Fellow of the ACM in 2013 for contributions to operating systems and networking research. @conference {273990, author = {Timothy Roscoe}, title = {It{\textquoteright}s Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware}, year = {2021}, publisher = {USENIX Association}, month = jul }
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