Description of realtime microkernel and integrated environment, designed and implemented to support/provide predictability, guarantees (on-line dynamic, atomic), end-to-end scheduling, resource reservations; supports call/task admission model; and mul...

Description of realtime microkernel and integrated environment, designed and implemented to support/provide predictability, guarantees (on-line dynamic, atomic), end-to-end scheduling, resource reservations; supports call/task admission model; and mul...

Where Morphic began, as a prototype-based implementation. Here are html Morphic User Interface papers, as part of the Self, prototype-based, object oriented programming language.

Manifesting a System-wide Vision of Concreteness, Uniformity, and Flexibility

Uses Morphic in the context of its original implementation.

Project home, for this simpler Smalltalk, at Sun Microsystems Labs. Has newest public release, papers on Self, OO, and prototype programming, tutorial, education resources, mail list archive, links.

Web programming environment, by Sun's Project Flair. Goal: give web programming equal simplicity, generality, flexibility as used in desktop programming, but with no installation, upgrade issues. Like AppJet. FAQ, forums, interactive tutorial. Open So...

Technical report on why network transparency is not the way to go in distributed applications, by Jim Waldo et al. [Sun Labs]

Research Java VM, examines better ways to build VMs. Most commercial VMs are coded in low level languages: C, assembly. Goal: write as much of VM as possible in Java, for portability, debugging, maintainability. Inspired by Squeak project.

Article on Guy Steele, chief architect of Sun's new Fortress language, part of a larger Sun Labs effort to create a design for the supercomputer of the future. Contrarian Minds Archive.