The Dependence of Operating System Size Upon Allocatable Resources
Atilla Elçi · Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System) · 1975
A detailed analysis of 40 operating systems demonstrates that the number of instructions required to control their resources varies over four orders of magnitude, but that 88% of this variance depends only upon the number of unique types of resources controlled.Differences in the size contributions of different resource types were not detectable.In addition, a software theoretic model is derived, and shown to be in accord with the exponential nature of the data.