Why object oriented operating systems are boring

Object oriented has become a very popular buzz phrase. The authors discuss how there are two things that are being confused. One is merely building systems using object oriented techniques. The other is building interesting systems, which may happen to use an object metaphor as a construction device. They explain that if the best thing one can say about an operating system is that it is `object oriented´, then it is a boring operating system. They consider what constitutes an interesting operating system