Visual overview of an operating system?

[Love4Boobies]

And for some non-native english speakers a picture IS worth a thousand words indeed.

I didn't think of that...

[neon]

While this might be useful to some extent; I feel it would be too abstract to be of any good OS development use. The details of the organizations of operating system components are, by nature, operating system specific.

Besides that, even the basic organizational structure would be very different between, lets say a rmode to pmode operating system; or an i86 architecture to an operating system running on a completely different architecture or embedded platform. (Of course, If you are focusing on i86 OS architecture this does not apply.)

[Love4Boobies]

@Love4Boobies: It's not like there's hundreds of distinct designs (and this time I'm even counting exokernels etc as specific designs, although they are not). I think some visual generalization to the few of the existent wiki pages would be cool.

Since when is exokernel a kernel design?