The LispOS Project: a position paper, part 1

[David Halls]

Dave Mason writes:
> Well, I can tell you the general region within which the killer app
> will fall: an operating system that allows secure access to its guts
> so that you can get almost the full performance out of the hardware -
> which is going to be necessary to get flexible multimedia and speech
> out of reasonably priced hardware within the next 5 years.
> 
> This is not a new idea.  We should be looking at:
>   Henry Massalin's work on the Synthesis Kernel,
>      http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/os/research.html 
>   Gregor Kiczales work on MOPs
>      http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/projects/oi/towards-talk/transcript.html
>   QNX's Photon display system
>      http://www.qnx.com/product/photon/photonindex.html

add Nemesis to that list

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/pegasus/nemesis.html

Dave