A small operating system

Subscribe (Full Service)


	Search: The ACM Digital Library The Guide

	Feedback

A small operating system

Full text

Pdf (814 KB)

Source

Symposium on Small Systems archive
Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGSMALL/PC symposium on Small systems table of contents

Crystal City, Virginia, United States

Pages: 132 - 142

Year of Publication: 1990

ISBN:0-89791-347-7

Author

Jerry Sayers

East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee

Sponsor

SIGICE: ACM Special Interest Group on Individual Computing Environment

Publisher

ACM New York, NY, USA

Bibliometrics

Downloads (6 Weeks): 0, Downloads (12 Months): 12, Citation Count: 1

Additional Information:

abstract references cited by index terms collaborative colleagues peer to peer

Tools and Actions:	Request Permissions Review this Article Save this Article to a Binder Display Formats: BibTeX EndNote ACM Ref

DOI Bookmark:	Use this link to bookmark this Article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/99412.99447 What is a DOI?

ABSTRACT

A multitasking operating system for an IBM PC or compatible has been developed to provide students with an educational opportunity for hands-on experience with concurrent programming concepts. The operating system includes features which permit users to observe performance as a function of the I/O versus compute bound processes. Although other such educational operating systems exist, this operating system is limited primarily to process management. The small size of the operating system makes it easy to comprehend in a single term course. It is, however, a powerful real time executive for applications such as small, embedded systems.

REFERENCES

Note: OCR errors may be found in this Reference List extracted from the full text article. ACM has opted to expose the complete List rather than only correct and linked references.

	1	MS-DOS is a trademark of MicroSoft Corporation.
	2	Robert Scott, "Rolling Your Own," Embedded Systems Programming, Vol. 2 No. 1, February, 1989, pp. 48-57.
	3	Jack Ganssle, "Writing a Real Time Operating System--Part I," Circuit Cellarlnk, January/February, 1989, pp. 45-51.
	4	Milan Milenkovič, Operating systems: concepts and design, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1987
	5	M. G. Lane , A. k. Ghosal, MPX-PC: an operating system project for the PC, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.21 n.1, p.231-235, Feb. 1989
	6	Unix is a trademark of AT&T Corporation.
	7	Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Operating systems: design and implementation, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1987
	8	Douglas Comer , Timothy V. Fossum, Operating system design. Vol. 1: the XINU approach (PC edition), Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1988
	9	J. Hummel, Xinu/WU: an improved PC-Xinu clone?, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.21 n.1, p.226-230, Feb. 1989