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• Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Open Source  (20)

comp.os.research FAQ - - Table of contents, points to questions.

FunOS - - Proposal for LISP oriented OS based on Assembly, Caml, FunScheme, a Scheme variant of LISP language.

Hydra - - Early capability-based OS kernel for multiprocessing environments, gave fine-grained protection. Goals: universal applicability, absolute reliability.

Novel OS Work - - By Christopher Browne. Very brief, clear descriptions and some critiquing of many OSs, mostly research types, with many links. Puts much current activity in larger context.

Research Operating Systems - - Short, annotated, alphabetically sorted list and links, part of larger system.

SPIN - - Dynamically extensible, Exokernel-based, provides many core services: scheduler, kernel threads, domains, event dispatcher, security mechanisms, primitive VM operations. Blurs distinction between kernels and applications, which traditionally live in user-level address spaces, separated from kernel resources and services by an expensive protection boundary. Lets applications specialize the kernel by dynamically linking new code into running systems.