| 1996 | A Hierarchical CPU Scheduler for Multimedia Operating Systems. Pawan Goyal, Xingang Guo, Harrick M. Vin |
| 1996 | A Trace-Driven Comparison of Algorithms for Parallel Prefetching and Caching. Tracy Kimbrel, Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, Brian N. Bershad, Pei Cao, Edward W. Felten, Garth A. Gibson, Anna R. Karlin, Kai Li |
| 1996 | Active Networks (Abstract). David L. Tennenhouse |
| 1996 | An Implementation of the Hamlyn Sender-Managed Interface Architecture. Gregory D. Buzzard, David Jacobson, Milon Mackey, Scott Marovich, John Wilkes |
| 1996 | Automatic Compiler-Inserted I/O Prefetching for Out-of-Core Applications. Todd C. Mowry, Angela K. Demke, Orran Krieger |
| 1996 | CPU Inheritance Scheduling. Bryan Ford, Sai Susarla |
| 1996 | Dealing with Disaster: Surviving Misbehaved Kernel Extensions. Margo I. Seltzer, Yasuhiro Endo, Christopher Small, Keith A. Smith |
| 1996 | Dynamic Binding for an Extensible System. Przemyslaw Pardyak, Brian N. Bershad |
| 1996 | Effects of Buffering Semantics on I/O Performance. José Carlos Brustoloni, Peter Steenkiste |
| 1996 | Efficient Cooperative Caching Using Hints. Prasenjit Sarkar, John H. Hartman |
| 1996 | JavaOS: Back to the Future (Abstract). James G. Mitchell |
| 1996 | Lazy Receiver Processing (LRP): A Network Subsystem Architecture for Server Systems. Peter Druschel, Gaurav Banga |
| 1996 | Lightweight Logging for Lazy Release Consistent Distributed Shared Memory. Manuel Costa, Paulo Guedes, Manuel Sequeira, Nuno Neves, Miguel Castro |
| 1996 | Making Paths Explicit in the Scout Operating System. David Mosberger, Larry L. Peterson |
| 1996 | Microkernels Meet Recursive Virtual Machines. Bryan Ford, Mike Hibler, Jay Lepreau, Patrick Tullmann, Godmar Back, Stephen Clawson |
| 1996 | Online Data-Race Detection via Coherency Guarantees. Dejan Perkovic, Peter J. Keleher |
| 1996 | Performance Evaluation of Two Home-Based Lazy Release Consistency Protocols for Shared Virtual Memory Systems. Yuanyuan Zhou, Liviu Iftode, Kai Li |
| 1996 | Proceedings of the Second USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Seattle, Washington, USA, October 28-31, 1996 Karin Petersen, Willy Zwaenepoel |
| 1996 | Safe Kernel Extensions Without Run-Time Checking. George C. Necula, Peter Lee |
| 1996 | Studies of Windows NT Performance Using Dynamic Execution Traces. Sharon E. Perl, Richard L. Sites |
| 1996 | The Synergy Between Non-Blocking Synchronization and Operating System Structure. Michael Greenwald, David R. Cheriton |
| 1996 | Using Latency to Evaluate Interactive System Performance. Yasuhiro Endo, Zheng Wang, J. Bradley Chen, Margo I. Seltzer |