Experience with K42, an open-source, Linux-compatible, scalable operating-system kernel

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 427-440

  Appavoo, Jonathan ^a   Auslander, Marc ^a   Butrico, Maria ^a   da Silva, Dilma M ^a   Krieger, Orran ^a   Mergen, Mark F ^a   Ostrowski, Michal ^a   Rosenburg, Bryan ^a   Wisniewski, Robert W ^a   Xenidis, Jimi ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SERVERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

LINUX; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEM;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 20444403336     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.442.0427     Document Type: Review

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