Computer Architecture and Operating Systems Web page

Operating Systems

  • UNIX Reference Desk: Information about UNIX, plus pointers to product, user interface, and technical information.
  • The comp.os.research FAQ: Lengthy and worthwhile FAQ covering operating system design issues.
  • ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems: Information on SIGOPS publications and conferences.
  • IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Cluster Computing: An international forum to promote cluster computing research and education.
  • The Memory Management Reference: A good source of documents and links on all aspects of memory management..
  • The Operating System Resource Center: A useful collection of documents and papers on a wide range of OS topics.
  • Open Group Research Institute--Operating System Program: The Open Group (a merger of the Open Software Foundation and the X/Open Company). Conducts R&D in a wide range of OS areas
  • ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems: Information on SIGOPS publications and conferences.
  • General Computer Artchitecture

  • WWW Computer Architecture Home Page: A comprehensive index to information relevant to computer architecture researchers, including architecture groups and projects, technical organizations, literature, employment, and commercial information.
  • CPU Info Center: Information on specific processors, including technical papers, product information, and latest announcements.
  • ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture: Information on SIGARCH activities and publications, good set of useful links.
  • IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture: Copies of TCAA newsletter, useful links.
  • Intel Technology Journal: Copies of TCAA newsletter, useful links.
  • Computer Evolution and Performance

  • Intel Developer's Page: Intel's Web page for developers; provides a starting point for accessing Pentium information.
  • PowerPC Home Page: IBM's home page for the PowerPC.
  • Intel FTP Site: Provides access to a wide range of Intel documents.
  • Charles Babbage Institute: Provides links to a number of web sites dealing with the history of computers.
  • System Buses

    Internal Memory

    External Memory

    Input/Output

    Computer Arithmetic

    Instruction Sets

    Instruction-Level Parallelism and Superscalar Processors

    Parallel Processing