2020/08/08 by K. Murali Krishnan, Krishnan, K. Murali
Computer Science · #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Operating Systems (cs.OS) #Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques #cs.OS
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2008.03563
arxiv created 2020/08/08 · openalex publication_date 2020/08/08 · arxiv updated 2020/08/11 · openalex created_date 2020/08/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
An operating system project suitable for undergraduate computing/electrical sciences students is presented. The project can be used as a course project in a one semester course, or as a self-study project for motivated students. The course is organized such that a student with a basic background in programming and computer organization can follow the implementation road map available online, and build the OS from scratch on her personal machine/laptop, with minimal instructional supervision. The student is provided with a simulated abstract machine, an application interface specification, specification and design of the OS, and a step by step project implementation road map. The functionalities of the OS include multitasking, virtual memory, semaphores, shared memory, an elementary file system, interrupt driven disk and console I/O, and a limited multi-user support. The final stage of the project involves porting the OS to a two-core machine. An independent one semester compiler design project, where the student builds a compiler for a tiny object oriented programming language that generates target code that can be loaded and executed by the OS is also briefly discussed.