Ideally, the most meaningful learning experience for students in an undergraduate OS course would be to develop fully functional OS's on their own. This can be accomplished using µMPS, a hardware emulator for a pedagogically undergraduateappropriate hardware architecture, along with Kaya, a specification for a multilayer OS supporting multiprocessing, VM, thread synchronization, external devices (disks, terminals, tape, printers, and network interfaces) and a file system. Traditional OS projects like Nachos[3] or OS/161[9] provide students with a significant starting code base. Students then modify existing OS modules or add new ones. With µMPS/Kaya students undergo an innovative and pedagogically different experience of starting only with a hardware emulator (i.e. no initial OS code base for students to build on/replace) and ending with a completely student written OS capable of running student written C programs.
The Kaya project and the uMPS hardware emulator
DAVOLI, RENZO;
2005
Abstract
Ideally, the most meaningful learning experience for students in an undergraduate OS course would be to develop fully functional OS's on their own. This can be accomplished using µMPS, a hardware emulator for a pedagogically undergraduateappropriate hardware architecture, along with Kaya, a specification for a multilayer OS supporting multiprocessing, VM, thread synchronization, external devices (disks, terminals, tape, printers, and network interfaces) and a file system. Traditional OS projects like Nachos[3] or OS/161[9] provide students with a significant starting code base. Students then modify existing OS modules or add new ones. With µMPS/Kaya students undergo an innovative and pedagogically different experience of starting only with a hardware emulator (i.e. no initial OS code base for students to build on/replace) and ending with a completely student written OS capable of running student written C programs.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
