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Design and Specification of the Minimal Subset of an Operating System Family

Abstract

The authors are engaged in a project to produce a precise description of a design for a family of operating systems. The design decisions ue being expressed by means of formal module specifications. In an attempt to write a concise specification of one of the most critical modules, a "virtual memory mechanism," some previously discussed specification techniques proved to be inadequate. The specification was much too large. Through a series of …

Authors

Parnas DL; Handzel G; Wurges H

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. SE-2, No. 4, pp. 301–307

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Publication Date

December 1976

DOI

10.1109/tse.1976.233836

ISSN

0098-5589