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Microsoft unveils Open Source multi core OS

08-10-2009 5:20pm

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A new operating system, code named Barrelfish is being developed by Microsoft research labs and ETH Zurich in Switzerland. This operating system is being built with multi core operations foremost in priority. It is supposed to be extremely scalable and able to function on a very wide range of hardware. You can download the current snapshot of it on their site and dig into the source code, released under a 3-clause BSD style license. If you would like to learn the primary differences between this OS and Windows or Linux, you can read this PDF.

[via Engadget]

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/microsoft-unveils-barrelfish-multi-core-optimized-os/
http://www.barrelfish.org/barrelfish_sosp09.pdf

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#2 08-10-2009 8:14pm

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the design of the os reminds me of the STI Cell B.E hardware design.
this should be a very cool project to play with.

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