OSNews Is Exploring The Future Of Computing Weblog style online magazine on operating systems and computing environments. Daily updates, reader forum with many comments. http://www.osnews.com/
Slashdot | The Last Multics System Decommissioned The announcement of the closure of the last Multics system and a brief discussion as the significance of the Operating System. http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/13/066228.shtml
The Creation Of The UNIX* Operating System The history of the development of Unix at Bell Labs, and how Multics was an important stepping stone. http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/
Extractions: After three decades of use, the UNIX* computer operating system from Bell Labs is still regarded as one of the most powerful, versatile, and flexible operating systems (OS) in the computer world. Its popularity is due to many factors, including its ability to run a wide variety of machines, from micros to supercomputers, and its portability all of which led to its adoption by many manufacturers. Like another legendary creature whose name also ends in 'x,' UNIX rose from the ashes of a multi-organizational effort in the early 1960s to develop a dependable timesharing operating system. The joint effort was not successful, but a few survivors from Bell Labs tried again, and what followed was a system that offers its users a work environment that has been described as "of unusual simplicity, power, and elegance...." The system also fostered a distinctive approach to software design solving a problem by interconnecting simpler tools, rather than creating large monolithic application programs. Its development and evolution led to a new philosophy of computing, and it has been a never-ending source of both challenges and joy to programmers around the world.
Extractions: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Multics Company developer MIT GE ... Bell Labs Programmed in PL/1 Assembly language Working state Mature, Historic Source model Open source (originally COSS , now FOSS Initial release Available language (s) English Supported platforms GE-645 mainframes, Honeywell 6180 series machines Kernel type Monolithic kernel Default user interface Command line interface License Originally proprietary MIT License since 2007 Official website Multicians, Sources Multics Mult iplexed I nformation and C omputing S ervice) was an extremely influential early time-sharing operating system . The project was started in 1964. The last known running Multics installation was shut down on October 30, 2000 at the Canadian Department of National Defense in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Initial planning and development for Multics started in 1964. Originally it was a cooperative project led by MIT (with Fernando Corbató ) along with General Electric and Bell Labs . Bell Labs dropped out in 1969 and in 1970 GE's computer business including Multics was taken over by Honeywell Multics was conceived as a commercial product for GE and became one for Honeywell, but not a very successful one. Due to its many novel and valuable ideas Multics had a great impact in the computer field even though it was then much derided by its critics.
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Dignus, LLC Products Assembler, and C and C++ compilers for all IBM mainframe operating systems, including Linux. http://www.dignus.com/products.shtml
Extractions: Assembler Systems/C++ Systems/C++ is a C compiler for the IBM mainframe, with unique features that make development of OS/390, z/OS, TPF, mainframe Linux, CMS and VSE system code easier and faster. Systems/C++ provides an excellent environment for general purpose programming as well as extensions for systems-level programming. To learn more about Systems/C++ , please examine our product information . You can take advantage of our web-based compilation page to try out Systems/C++ on on your own C++ source code. Systems/C Systems/C is a C compiler for the IBM mainframe, with unique features that make development of OS/390, z/OS, TPF, Linux/390, CMS and VSE system code easier and faster. Systems/C provides an excellent environment for general purpose programming as well as a superb environment for systems-level programming. To learn more about Systems/C , please examine our product information . To see, first hand, some of its features, we have several examples of C source code and the generated output. Or, you can take advantage of our web-based compilation page to
Extensible Operating Systems Brief description, and on-site links to descriptions of Choices, Exokernel, GLUnix, VINO, SPIN. http://www.cs.unm.edu/~riesen/prop/node26.html
Extractions: Next: Spin Up: Related Work Previous: Workstation Environments An extensible operating system lets an application apply certain customization to tailor the operating system's behavior to the needs of the application. Applications running on personal computers have been taking advantage of the non-existing protection mechanisms in MS-DOS and the Apple Macintosh operating system to extend the operating system. For example, intercepting keystrokes and mouse events, as well as writing to screen memory directly is possible. These simple operating systems are not able to protect themselves or other applications from buggy or malicious user code. Many variants of the Unix operating system allow a trusted user (the system administrator) to modify the running system by adding new device drivers and kernel services such as different file systems. Flexibility is lost, since the applications cannot dynamically adjust the system to their needs anymore. Furthermore, the operating system still has no way of verifying that the extension will not harm the system or other applications. Current research in extensible operating systems tries to address these issues. The goal is to let applications safely modify system behavior. For example, it should be possible for an application to specify its own memory page manager. The kernel would call this page manager when the system needs to reclaim memory pages currently allocated to this application. The application specific page manager can then decide which pages should be given up. For this to be efficient, the page manager needs to reside inside the kernel, so no expensive cross-domain calls are necessary to evict memory pages. The page manager has to be isolated so it can not disrupt other kernel services or wreck havoc with the page handling of other applications.
Alternative OSes On The Net A list of operating systems and OS link sites. http://www.d1.dion.ne.jp/~r_high/GeekOS/indexos.html
Extractions: AIX (commercial) Akula Alliance OS Allegro (commercial) Amadeus Project - Distributed Persistent Programming Platform Ambrosia AROS - Amiga OS 3.1 Replacement Project Amiga OS 3.1 Replacement Project ... Angel Operating System (City Univ. of London) Antares Operating System Aperios (Apertos) - Reflective Object-Oriented Operating System Apollo OS - an all-platform compatible OS Ara Project - mobile agents in heterogeneous networks Archons Project - distributed real-time computing ARGON Aristarch/OS (Projekt SAMOS) ... AS/400 Operating System (OS/400) (commercial) AsBestOS - A Persistant Distributed Exo-Kernel Object-Centric OS Athene - A Multi-Platform Operating System AtomOS A/UX Operating System FAQ ... Avios - A VIrtual Operating System on top of UNIX BatOS - Virtual Operating System Be Operating System (commercial) B-Free
C R Y P T O N O M I C O N A history of operating systems, by Neal Stephenson. http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
Extractions: the Command Line About twenty years ago Jobs and Wozniak, the founders of Apple, came up with the very strange idea of selling information processing machines for use in the home. The business took off, and its founders made a lot of money and received the credit they deserved for being daring visionaries. But around the same time, Bill Gates and Paul Allen came up with an idea even stranger and more fantastical: selling computer operating systems . This was much weirder than the idea of Jobs and Wozniak. A computer at least had some sort of physical reality to it. It came in a box, you could open it up and plug it in and watch lights blink. An operating system had no tangible incarnation at all. It arrived on a disk, of course, but the disk was, in effect, nothing more than the box that the OS came in. The product itself was a very long string of ones and zeroes that, when properly installed and coddled, gave you the ability to manipulate other very long strings of ones and zeroes. Even those few who actually understood what a computer operating system was were apt to think of it as a fantastically arcane engineering prodigy, like a breeder reactor or a U-2 spy plane, and not something that could ever be (in the parlance of high-tech) "productized."
Cisco Brief, clear description, by OS and network consultants, Frigate Networks. http://www.frigate.com/cisco.html
Extractions: The "IOS" operating system runs on a variety of cisco platforms, including most routers and the 2900 an 3500 families of Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet switches. In addition, other cisco products, such as the cisco 500 family of web cache engines implement a command line interface that is similar to IOS. IOS has several features that make administration easier. The configuration file is stored as a sequence of commands. This same sequence of commands can also be displayed on the screen or written to a file over the network. There is a consistent command line interface for managing this configuration: A large number of things can be displayed with the "show" command. Use "show ?" to get a list. The command "show run" shows the "running-configuration". The output is the same as that of "write terminal". Commands can be abbreviated to the shortest unique string. For example, "write terminal" can be abreviated as "wr term".
FreeOS Provides articles, documentation, links to software, and news about Linux and other operating systems. http://www.freeos.com/
Linux International Non-profit association of groups, corporations, and others that work toward promoting and helping direct the growth of the Linux operating system and community. http://li.org/
Extractions: Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world. Developed under the GNU General Public License , the source code for Linux is freely available to everyone. Click on the link below to find out more about the operating system that is causing a revolution in the world of computers. Kernel release: 2.6.37-rc1 , Nov 01 2010 Kernel release: 2.6.35.8 , Oct 29 2010 Kernel release: 2.6.32.25 , Oct 29 2010 Kernel release: 2.6.27.55 , Oct 29 2010 Kernel release: 2.6.35.8-rc1 , Oct 22 2010 Kernel release: 2.6.32.25-rc1 , Oct 22 2010 Kernel release: 2.6.27.55-rc1 , Oct 22 2010 Kernel release: 2.6.36 , Oct 20 2010 Kernel release: 2.6.36-rc8 , Oct 14 2010 Kernel release: 2.6.36-rc7 , Oct 06 2010 Do you have an old PC that you're thinking of parting with? Before you send it to the landfill, you may want to pick up a copy of The Official Damn Small Linux Book . In it, you'll find out all you need to know to give your old hardware a new lease on life. For more information, we invite you to read a
Cooperative Linux Port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine. http://www.colinux.org/
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Lindows - Linux For The Desktop LindowsOS is a Linux Operating System aimed at the Desktop http://www.codework-systems.com/lindows/index.htm
Extractions: Linspire™is a new, affordable, fun, and exciting operating system that delivers the power, stability and cost-savings of Linux with the ease of a windows environment. Linspire is easy to experience with its colourful, friendly interface. With its simple 10-minute installation, even computer novices can enjoy this modern, next-generation operating system with just a few simple clicks of their mouse. Linspire is a full-featured operating system like Microsoft Windows XP or Apple Mac OSX. Linspire offers you the best operating environment available by giving you the power, stability and cost-savings of Linux with the ease of a windows environment. In addition, Linspire features exclusive CNR technology (Click and Run) that makes installing software on Linspire easier than any other operating system. To view details on Click and Run click view our Click and Run Page. Linspire Is Internet Ready The Linspire web suite is optimized for convenience and usability. The tabbed web browser with popup-ad blocking keeps your desktop free from clutter. In addition, the integrated find feature lets you perform custom web searches with just a click of your mouse. The intuitive email spam filtering learns which emails you consider to be good, and which you consider to be bad, making it the most effective spam solution available!
Linux On Laptops A resource about installing and running the Linux operating system on laptops and notebooks. http://www.linux-laptop.net/
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Linux Linux and other operating systems for small computers. http://members.tripod.com/~phsoft/linux.html
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