OS as Embedded Library

The 0^th generation of operating systems amounted to a collection of useful routines that had been collected from users of the same type of computer.  The "OS" was simply a collection of resident routines to help provide a base level of abstraction from the "bare metal." This project investigates the idea that the evolution of the modern operating system has produced an operational framework for the execution of many standard computational services that is vastly less efficient than it could be due to the generality of its solution.  We argue that for the dominate collection of applications in use in today's computing environment a return to the "operating system" as an embedded library has definite advantages. The concept is one of light weight servers.