Teaching an operating systems course.

[Gary Herron]

Hi,

I'm going to be teaching an Operating Systems course in a Computer
Science department of a nearby college. I'm currently searching
around for interesting programming projects for the students. It is
my hope that I can find some open source frameworks for exploring
operating system concepts.

In my search of the web, I did find one possibility, called RCOS, at
http://cq-pan.cqu.edu.au/david-jones/Projects/rcos/index.html, but it
seems to have gone inactive about six years ago while converting from
from C++ to Java.

Thanks for any pointers,
Gary Herron

[Robert G. Rittenhouse]

Post by Gary Herron
Hi,
I'm going to be teaching an Operating Systems course in a Computer
Science department of a nearby college. I'm currently searching
around for interesting programming projects for the students. It is
my hope that I can find some open source frameworks for exploring
operating system concepts.

You don't mention what level?

Look at VisualOS at http://visualos.sourceforge.net/

It's also useful to write programs that get into the OS your running. Perhaps
some network I/O programming or programs with threads and schedulers.

Rob R.