Survey of design goals for operating systems
David H. Abernathy, John S. Mancino, Charls R. Pearson, Dona C. Swiger · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 1973
The paper reports the results of a literature search on the subject "design goals for operating systems." In addition, design goals of specific operating systems are reviewed and a general set of operating system design goals is developed. Special-purpose design goals and conflicts among design goals are also discussed.