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Research Operating Systems That Never Quite Made it
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.
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.
- 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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