ACM / Crossroads / Xrds9-2 / Crossroads 9.2: Alternative Operating Systems

Alternative Operating Systems
Winter 2002 - 9.2

Columns

• Introduction
  by Wiliam Stevenson
• Maurice Elzas on Simulation Ethics
  Interview by Kostas Pentikousis

Features

• Building a Nocturnal Cluster With Nonstandard Hardware: Linux on the iMac
  by Eric J. Shamow
• Q²ADPZ: An Open Source, Multi-platform System for Distributed Computing
  by Zoran Constantinescu and Pavel Petrovic
• An Introduction to Active Network Node Operating Systems
  by Parveen Patel

Online-Only Features

• Comparing the Architectures of Component-based Operating Systems
  by Raimi Rufai