Star Another Microsoft Research Operating System: Helios
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Sep 2009 23:15 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Microsoft It seems like Microsoft Research is really busy these days with research operating systems. We had Singularity, a microkernel operating system written in managed code, and late last week we were acquainted with Barrelfish, a "multikernel" system which treats a multicore system as a network of independent cores, using ideas from distributed systems. Now, we have a third contestant, and it's called Helios.
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RE: State of Singularity
by n4cer on Wed 30th Sep 2009 00:02 UTC in reply to "State of Singularity"
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I was very excited when they announced Singularity, and was happy to see an open source release at Codeplex later on. Unfortunately the development seems to be stalled right now. The last commit was at Nov 14 2008. Unlike the last two prototype OSes(?), this one actually had potential, since I'm already writing command line C# applications, which it apparently supports. Hope they resurrect the project soon.


Internally, Singularity transitioned to an incubation project called Midori. There's not much info available about it externally, though you can find a few articles here and there.

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