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Short, annotated, alphabetically sorted list and links, part of larger system.
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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/research.html

Table of contents, points to questions.
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The comp.os.research FAQ  Frequently answered questions for comp.os.research This resource is maintained by Bryan O'Sullivan, and is copyrighted 1993--1995 by him; see the notice of copyright for further information. The modification history may also be viewed. The FAQ is composed of an introduction...
http://hierophant.serpentine.com/~bos/os-faq/

Proposal for LISP oriented OS based on Assembly, Caml, FunScheme, a Scheme variant of LISP language.
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FunOS  Operating systems to look at include: RPIX, TUNIS, SPIN, Plan9, QNX, and VSTa. Lisp Machine References Immediate Goals The Assembly Layer Figure out what needs to be done in order to boot the machine; write assembly that does that. We...
http://www.sarg.ryerson.ca/~cmwilson/code/funos/funos.html

Early capability-based OS kernel for multiprocessing environments, gave fine-grained protection. Goals: universal applicability, absolute reliability.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~grib...e/osprelims/summaries/hydra.html

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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Novel OS Work  Ses has provided more unique results. This stuff is really not ready for users, as it takes quite a bit of thought to get your mind around the consequences of the design concepts. The big concept that I keep seeing...
http://cbbrowne.com/info/osnovel.html