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 Webpage has been discontinued Unfortunately, I no longer have time to maintain the webpages on operating system projects. In fact, I haven't updated the entries on the original page for well over 2 years, and it seems unlikely that I...
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/os/qos.html

Free for non-commercial use. Communication-oriented OS focused on network systems: network-attached devices, set-top boxes, and hand-held devices. Fast, customizable, based on new ways to structure and construct OSs: The Path: how data flows between end-points in a system; paths are primary objects to which resources are assigned. Also exploring new compiler technologies for system design and implementation, based on this insight: extensible OSs are worthless if no one can build or extend them.
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 Click here to retrieve this page from a Scout web server. The Scout Operating System Overview Scout is a communication-oriented operating system targeted at network appliances (e.g network-attached devices, set-top boxes, hand-held devices, and so on Click here for an...
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/scout/

High-Performance distributed object environment emphasizing adaptive end-to-end QoS guarantees. Abstract, components, documents, people, funding.
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Project Satori: A High-Performance Distributed Object Environment  Return to project home page Last modified August 28, 1997 by Diana Ehrlich...
http://www.arl.wustl.edu/projects/archive/ito/

Has information loss become so crucial? Is there real demand for highly available networks? Or are network OEMs, fighting a bad economy, making high-tech versions of detergent ads claiming new and improved. [Vaughan-Nichols & Associates]
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Getting Closer to 99.9999% Network Uptime  Systems announced new software for its 12000 series routers, Globally Resilient IP (GRIP GRIP is meant to eliminate data loss on the network even if there are circuit failures or human errors. Not a bad trick if they can do...
http://www.practical-tech.com/network/n04252003.htm

Several RTOSs with QoS focus: much research is done on networking support for continuous-media applications, very few projects tackle related OS issues, such as scheduling and file system support for bounded response time: overview, status, download, installation, use, documentation, papers.
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DROPS  If you are new to this site, please start exploring it at the overview page. What's new 19 Aug 2004 L4Linux-2.6 released L4Linux-2.6 is based on L4Env. For more information refer to the L4Linux website. 30 Jun 2003 L4Env and...
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/drops/

One-user, general purpose OS built on a protected memory, POSIX threads RT kernel; full kernel, device drivers, file systems, and network protocols runs in about 200 K RAM; now runs on x86 CPUs but designed for easy portability. [Open source, GPL]
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Cornfed Systems  Our products are developed specifically for high-performance and small footprint, making them ideal in embedded and mobile wireless applications. Visit the Cornfed Systems VoIP Blog!...
http://www.cornfed.com/

Extensible OS, high reusability and modularity, application-directed kernel policy, universal resource interface, take no usual solutions for granted (question everything): software and postscript downloads.
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The VINO Operating System  O is an extensible operating system. This means that application software, running with the privileges of an ordinary user, can provide extensions to operating system (specifically, operating system kernel) functionality. More importantly, this can be done both safely and reasonably...
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~vino/vino/