Design of a persistent operating system kernel

The persistent operating system is the next logical step in the higher level abstraction of electronic information systems. Current operating systems do not provide an appropriate platform for building persistent systems. This naturally leads to the conclusion that an operating system especially designed to support orthogonal persistence is required. A persistent operating system will provide an abstraction consistent with our requirements as a fundamental building block. Intrinsically a persistent operating system would be capable of providing all the functionality of traditional operating systems. The research issues for such a system are addressing, resilience, process management and protection. This paper summarizes the research on persistent environments and explains the issues in the design of a persistent operating system kernel.