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6.828 Operating System Engineering (Fall 2014)
MIT's Operating System Engineering course from Fall 2014, with lecture notes, readings, and hands-on kernel labs that te…
9front
A community-maintained fork of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, continuing development of the experimental operating system's tool…
A Constructive Look at TempleOS
A thoughtful essay examining Terry Davis's TempleOS on its technical merits and quirks, from a programmer who finds real…
A Toy RTOS Inside Super Mario Bros.
A mind-bending experiment that implements threads and a tiny operating system inside Super Mario Bros. on the NES using…
Computer Science from the Bottom Up
A free online book by Ian Wienand that explains how computers really work, from binary and CPU architecture to operating…
CS 4414 Operating Systems
The University of Virginia operating systems course site, with lecture notes, slides, and assignments that teach systems…
Desktop Colors
A museum for the plain solid background colors that classic operating systems shipped as their desktops, browsable by pl…
Desktop Neo
An animated design concept that reimagines the desktop computer interface with panels instead of windows, tag-based file…
FreeDOS
An open-source, DOS-compatible operating system still actively maintained for running old software and retro hardware.
GUIdebook
A gallery preserving screenshots, icons, sounds and timelines from legacy operating systems and graphical interfaces, fr…
I Created the Nerdiest Game Ever
The story behind a video game in which you play an operating system, scheduling processes and juggling memory, told by i…
In the Beginning Was the Command Line
Neal Stephenson's classic 1999 essay on operating systems, user interfaces and culture, comparing Windows, Mac, Linux an…
JSLinux
A PC emulator written in JavaScript by Fabrice Bellard that boots Linux and other operating systems inside your browser…
MINIX 3
The home of MINIX, the small teaching operating system created by Andrew Tanenbaum that influenced Linux's early develop…
Multicians
A memorial and reference site run by former engineers of Multics, the influential 1960s operating system that inspired U…
My Hobby OS That Runs Minecraft
A write-up on getting Minecraft running on Astral, a hobby operating system built from scratch, covering the porting hur…
OpenBSD
The home of OpenBSD, a security-focused Unix-like operating system known for its clean code, strict licensing, and disti…
Ops-Class
Hack the kernel: a free online operating systems course from SUNY Buffalo with videos and assignments where students com…
OS/2 Museum
A detailed technical blog exploring the history of IBM OS/2 and DOS-era software internals, written by an operating syst…
Plan 9 from User Space
The home of Plan 9 from User Space, a port of Bell Labs' experimental Plan 9 tools to ordinary Unix and Linux systems.
Putting the You in CPU
A free illustrated mini-book explaining what actually happens inside a CPU and operating system when you run a program.
Retrotechnology Media
A gallery of screenshots of old desktop operating systems and GUIs, from Visi On and early Sun and Apple systems onward,…
The Restart Page
A page that lets you reboot vintage operating systems on demand, replaying their classic startup screens and sounds for…
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The TRON Project: How Japan Almost Ruled IT
A long read on TRON, Japan's ambitious 1980s open operating system project, and how politics, US trade pressure and bad…
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