Research Operating Systems That Never Quite Made itThis is a featured page

Universities and industrial research labs often produced operating systems that Never Quite Made it in the real world. They often embodied decent ideas that shouldn't get lost.

  • Sprite - process migration and networked filesystem, Log-structured filesystem
  • Opal - single, 64-bit address space
  • K42 - reliability
  • Mach - emulating other operating systems
  • Plan 9 - per-process mutable namespaces
  • L4 and friends: totally microkernel
  • Amoeba - total distribution

    Some of these operating systems certainly contributed mainstream material: TCL comes from Sprite, Apple's OSX has its roots in Mach, as did DEC's OSF/1.


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