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This category is for operating systems (OSs) which main purpose is research into OSs and into larger, more general system issues. Mostly the links in this category point to other OS categories and OSs therein. The only OSs listed exclusively herein are those for which no better or clearer category seems suitable. On this page, OSs are arranged in two groups and levels: 1) Top group: types or ... [MORE]
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SPIN
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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.
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comp.os.research FAQ
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Table of contents, points to questions.
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FunOS
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Proposal for LISP oriented OS based on Assembly, Caml, FunScheme, a Scheme variant of LISP language.
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Novel OS Work
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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.
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