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Welcome to the community page for the Cy/VOS operating system. This is a wiki, so it can be edited. Unfortunately, due to the past loss of the wiki to spammers, this page is now password protected. Contact the developers for the edit password.

To see what people have been working on lately, see the summary of recent updates to the wiki. Automatic wiki words (IllegibleStuffLikeThis) are now turned off, so pages that rely on them will be fixed as they are noticed.

About Cy/VOS

Information about the Cy/VOS real-time operating system and its development.

• An introduction to Cy/VOS
• Cy/VOS concepts and architecture (overview)
• Cy/VOS structure and components
• Thoughts on the message passing API
• A proposal for the Cy/VOS filesystem
• LayerGUI -- the proposed Cy/VOS GUI model

Cy/VOS Next Generation

Cy/VOS Next Generation is the test bed for some of the interesting new ideas we're working on.

• Introduction - the introduction to Cy/VOS NG
• Process Management - the design ideas underlying process management.
• Driver Processes - An idea for rapid execution on x86.
• Alien Processes - An unusual twist on an old idea.

Official development

• Coding Style - The methods of coding for Cy/VOS
• Terminology - How to determine the nature of something from its name

Feedback

• Feature request postbox For requesting Cy/VOS features without having to write a diatribe on the specifics
• Wiki RFE: Desired changes to the wiki
• Ideas and development

Reference/See also

• Other operating systems out there
• User interface design reference
• Informative reading