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Operating System Catalogue

Grasshopper
http://www.gh.cs.su.oz.au/Grasshopper/Papers/GH10/gh10.html
Grasshopper is a operating system that supports OrthogonalPersistence

Tune's List
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/rideau/Tunes/Review/OSes.html
Tons of links to every possible operating system desination!

Arizona' List
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/os/full.html
"This pages contains links to past and on going OS projects." - lhsin@pl.jaring.my

WebOS
http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/WebOS/index.html
A project to create a global operating system based around the world wide web. Features include a Web File System that uses the URL namespace, and secure remote execution.

Echidna
http://www.javagroup.org/echidna/
A free multiprocess system in Java - I'd like to talk about agreeing on an interface so the two implementations could be used interchangably.. lukeg@squirrel.net

Elate
http://www.tao.co.uk/taos.htm
A commercial object oriented operating system for embedded systems. They have their own VM. Nice ideas.

Cacao
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/java/cacao/index.html
A 64 bit just-in-time (JIT) compiler for Java for the ALPHA processor.

Grok VM
http://www.envise.com/~pahallam/grok/grok.html
The grok project is an implementation of the Java Virtual Machine for Intel x86 Win32 platforms.

Open Group Research's Test Suite
http://www.gr.osf.org/java/testsuite/html/index.html
Additional testing of Java VM, including performance tests. BillRehm

Utah's Java Computer
http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/flux/oskit/javaos.html
Another (not so free) Java operating system. It is free for non-commercial use.

JavaOS
http://www.javasoft.com/products/javaos/index.html
JavaSoft's JavaOS(tm) operating system white paper.

Marketing Java OS
http://java.sun.com/marketing/collateral/os.html
Sun's Marketing Collateral For Java OS (tm)

Article in Javology:
"Java OS...Is it serious competition for traditional operating systems?"
Two part article:

http://www.javology.com/javology/AugSept97/IS_JavaOS_0897.html
http://www.javology.com/javology/OctNov97/IS_JOS2_1097.html
Article analyzing Sun's JavaOS

Meta Java
http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Projects/PM/Java/
MetaJava - A meta architecture for the JavaTM virtual machine (metaXa). "Very interesting link! We definitely need this functionality in many different places: BeanContext, Directory/persistence, JNI" - DimaKondratiev

Java Nano Kernel
http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/embedded/pubs/tr96-29/html/tr96-29.html
Details the process of writing a Java NanoKernal (no AWT support,though)

OSKit
http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/flux/oskit/
OSKit

FreeDOS
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/
The FreeDOS site.

JN - Network Computer OS
http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/embedded/pubs/tr96-29/html/
JN: An Operating System for an Embedded Java Network Computer

BeOS
http://www.be.com
"The system database is in their OO filesystem"

Squeak
ftp://ftp.create.ucsb.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/docs/OOPSLA.Squeak.html
A smalltalk system written in smalltalk.

JexeOS
http://cmall.tjsys.co.jp/jexe/index.htm
A commercial PC OS for JavaTM applications

Joust
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/scout/joust.html
Project at University of Arizona to create "a small, fast Java OS"

Inferno
http://www.lucent-inferno.com
Lucent's operating system based on their Dis virtual machine. They currently support Limbo, their own programming language and have announced future support for Personal Java.

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See Also: RealtimeOperatingSystems




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