This page outlines a research plan to create a multiprocessor general purpose computing/operating system, called COS (Co-Operating System) that will lead to the delivery of guaranteed general purpose computing systems. Underlying this research plan is the following hypothesis: So that dynamic ad hoc networks of processes can be created the IPC channels are also handled by the resource allocation mechanism. Because this resource allocation mechanism makes the state of the system visible to resources it is possible to manage all resources as a feedback control problem.