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Abstract

The first OSR issue I read was Volume 29 No. 2 (April 1995). At the time I was actively working on the SPIN Extensible Operating System [5] and looking for new ways to safely expose interrupt handling to user-provided code loaded into the kernel. The article by Kleiman and Eykholt on "Interrupts as Threads" in that issue of OSR was highly relevant and informative. Ever since then I had planned on contributing to OSR but unfortunately never got around to it. For this reason, when Jeanna Matthews asked whether I could serve as the guest editor of the inaugural special topics OSR issue, I jumped at the opportunity.