November 1995 / Special Report

Smooth Operators	New developments with today's -- and tomorrow's -- OSes - by Edmund X. DeJesus
OS Paradise No Hoop Dreams for Windows 95 UnixWare Puts Up a Good Front Campbell's Couldn't Do It Better Varied in its Confusion The Linux Phenomenon What You See: What You Want? Doing It Over The Original Ritchie Rich	The lowdown on the latest 32-bit PC operating systems - by Tom Yager
NextStep: Pretty, Limited	The futuristic NextStep is a lovable mutt: a Carnegie-Mellon Mach kernel, BSD commands and libraries atop that, and a proprietary GUI that broke new ground at the time of its introduction.
Filling in Windows Blanks Internet Explorer Could Have Found Livingston Information at Your Fingertips Utilitarian and Smart, Too Now if Space Wizard Would Just Do Laundry What the Other OSes Forgot	Utility programs provide functions left out of an OS, and the best ones become part of it - by Peter D. Varhol
Not THAT DOS Key Features of Spring Key Features of Plan 9 Ports The Plan 9 Network at York Plan 9's Down-to-Earth Architecture Part of a Plan 9 Screen Operating-System Research: Dim or Bright Future?	Distributed OSes, slowly emerging from research, cure a multitude of ills - by Paul Korzeniowski
Sincere OS Flatt ery Elements of Emulation Required Support Bridging the Gap	Emulators help you run existing applications on a wider variety of OSes - by Barry Nance
OO Meets OS Not Much is Irreplaceable Any Longer Object Babel Signs to Cairo Is There a Docfile in the House? Name's No Longer the Thing	Object-oriented OSes are almost here -- as always - by Dick Pountain
And One for All Access to OS Services: Two Styles Unify's Vision Far Reaching JYACC's Last Jam	Using one source code base to target multiple platforms is possible, but not ideal - by David S. Linthicum
Crashing the Party Messages Don't Always Tell It Like It Is	How to crash the major desktop OSes, and what it says about their architectures - by Bruce Brown

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