Review of Other Operating Systems


This page is under constant construction.
Please help me enrich it, by sending annotations to existing pointers, new pointers, and the usual feedback.

Please tell me about any other interesting pointer you know, that may relate somehow (anyhow) to the Tunes project...


OS Projects

  • Jecel's Merlin project of a SELF-based OS.
  • Sony CSL's Apertos, the Reflective OO OS
  • Grasshopper, the orthogonally persistent distributed OS from Australia
  • Andy Valencia's VSTa free microkernel's mailing list or distribution
  • Mach is a free microkernel upon which many unix clones are built.
  • Linus Torvalds' Linux free POSIX.1 compliant Unix clone for 32 bit intel PCs, and more: Sparc, ALPHA, M68K, MIPS (PowerPC ?) ports are on the way...
    Also check out the linux.org or sunsite.
  • LITES is a 4.4BSD Lites based Mach server providing binary compatibility with 4.4BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, 386BSD, UX, and Linux.
  • Papers about Andy Tanenbaum's Amoeba distributed OS, and related Orca programming language
  • Flexmach, a project for objects above Mach in C++ (yuck) and the related OMOS model and implementation over plain unix.
  • Apple's Newton Operating System and NewtonScript language
  • SPIN OS from University of Washington
  • Sun's Spring OS (also here)
  • NachOS is an instructional OS developped at Berkeley by Tom Anderson, Wayne Christofer, Stephen Procter and others.
  • AT&T's Plan9 OS, or what Unix should have been.


    OS Related Pointers

  • Sven Paas' page about OSes
  • Another page about OSes
  • Yahoo's page on Operating Systems.
  • The comp.os.research newsgroup, its FAQ, and its archive
  • An Operating System Vade Mecum by Raphael Finkel
  • Loughborough University high-performance networking and distributed systems archive
  • The ANDF technology for portable binary code distribution (also an ftp repository).

  • Here are pointers to threads packages:
  • Here are some research laboratories interested in operating systems:


    To Do on this page

  • Actually review these OSes, not merely pointing to them. Gasp.
  • Talk about the open development model, as used in Linux.
  • Add pointers and reviews to other, interesting commercial systems, like GEOS, TAOS, Chorus (and its, FAQ) QNX, Sprite
  • Review major brand X OSes, like MS-DOS, MacOS, Windows (3.x, NT, '95), UNIX clones, OS/2, etc.


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    Page Maintainer:
    Faré -- rideau@clipper.ens.fr