Abstract
It is often difficult to select relevant and reasonable laboratory assignments in an introductory operating systems course. The students are seldom prepared to code intricate portions of an operating system, even if suitable hardware were available for such extensive use. Nevertheless, it is essential that the students gain a quantitative insight into the components and interactions of simple and complex operating systems. An operating system simulator that allows an evaluation of the performances of various operating system configutations without requiring the student to write complicated code would help to solve the dilemma. An operating systems simulator named POPSS is a fine tool for such such use.
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Operating systems with POPSS
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Operating systems with POPSS
SIGCSE '77: Proceedings of the seventh SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science educationIt is often difficult to select relevant and reasonable laboratory assignments in an introductory operating systems course. The students are seldom prepared to code intricate portions of an operating system, even if suitable hardware were available for ...
POPSS - a parametric operating system simulator
SIGCSE '73: Proceedings of the third SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science educationIn this paper we describe POPSS, an event driven simulator which is intended to simulate the activity of a computer system- hardware together with an operating system - as it processes a work-load. Input to the simulator is in the form of keyword ...






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