A directory for OS projects
Fri, 22 Mar 1996 03:58:28 +0100 (MET)
Dear Tunespeople, Dear OS Dev people,
there are plenty of existing OS projects,
and the german page pointed at in my OS page
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/rideau/Review/OSes.html
tries to find them all.
Surely you should see and learn the most important about them,
as well as about many other closely to remotely OS-related topics,
like for instance consistent Garbage Collection
in a persistent distributed system with unreliable communication,
scheduling object migration,
partial evaluation and formal programming methods, etc.
You should know very well the FAQ from Comp.OS.Research,
and have an idea about everything in it.
Because developping OSes and programming languages are not
heterogeneous topics, you should also know about much of what
the Tunes Languages Review page talks about:
<http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/rideau/Tunes/Review/Languages.html>.
It would also be nice if you knew the ideas in the Tunes project
in general, and many other very advanced projects:
<http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/rideau/Tunes/>,
For all that, you'll easily spend one month to have a first idea,
another month to explore what you're more interested into,
and lot of time to master it.
But that's an investment that'll have a very high yield.
Don't expect to achieve anything great before you do.
Moreover, I'd like you all to participate
in an effort to synthetize the given data,
so that all the OS-writer wannabees in the world
(it seems that all young passionate programmers once are),
including those of you who don't have time to read that all,
learn what are the real stakes and traps
of developping a useful computing environment.
I'll put anything you send me in the Tunes Review subproject.
If anyone is willing to coordinate it, I'd be glad to let one do it.
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