Microsoft has applied for a patent for a distributed operating system that matches the description of one its researchers have been developing, known as Helios. (Thanks to ZDNet blogger @Manan for the ...

An operating system designed to work in a network. More complex than a centralized or decentralized architecture, each computer in a distributed system operates and scales independently but is part of ...

In this paper, the authors aim at providing a complete survey of distributed operating systems. This paper also explains in detail about various key design issues involved in the building of such ...

Dr. Rao Mikkilineni and Ian Seyler have published a paper that introduces the new Parallax operating system for scalable, distributed and parallel computing. Parallax, a new operating system, ...

It’s been hard to define exactly what Improbable, the London-based company that raised $20 million from Andreessen Horowitz in March, does up until now, but its vision is clearer after it announced ...

Writing your own operating system can be anything from a summer hobby project to a full-fledged commercial endeavor taking many years to complete. One might think that with so many operating systems ...

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Concurrent with IBM's announcement of direct System z mainframe FICON access to DS8700 resident open systems disk, INNOVATION Data Processing is delivering FDRSOS V5.4.74, which the company describes ...