Nemesis was an
operating system that was designed by the
University of Cambridge, the
University of Glasgow, the
Swedish Institute of Computer Science
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and
Citrix Systems
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.
Nemesis was conceived with
multimedia uses in mind. It was designed with a small
lightweight kernel, using
shared libraries to perform functions that most operating systems perform in the kernel. This reduces the processing that is performed in the kernel on behalf of application processes, transferring the activity to the processes themselves and facilitating accounting for resource usage.
The
ISA
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s that Nemesis supports include
x86 (
Intel i486
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,
Pentium,
Pentium Pro, and
Pentium II),
Alpha
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and
ARM (
StrongARM SA–110). Nemesis also runs on
evaluation boards
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(21064 and 21164).
See also
*
Exokernel
*
Xen
Xen (pronounced ) is a type-1 hypervisor, providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently. It was
originally developed by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory an ...
*
Kernel wide design approaches
References
External links
Nemesis At Cambridge
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Free software operating systems
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
Citrix Systems