Experience with MINIX in an operating systems lab

ABSTRACT

Most standard undergraduate operating systems courses teach theory and concepts, without exposing students to the detailed internal operation or source code of an actual operating system. Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system is designed to give students "hands-on" experience with the internals of an operating system in order to illustrate the theory and concepts. This paper describes the use of MINIX in an operating systems laboratory at the University of Vermont.

REFERENCES

• 1: Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Operating systems: design and implementation, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1987
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• 3: R. van Renesse , H. van Staveren , A. D. Tanenbaum, The performance of the Amoeba distributed operating system, Software—Practice & Experience, v.19 n.3, p.223-234, March 1989 [doi>10.1002/spe.4380190303]
• 4: Marc J. Rochkind, Advanced UNIX programming, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1985
• 5: Keith Haviland , Ben Salama, UNIX system programming, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1987

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
      D.4.0 General

          Nouns: MINIX

Additional Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
          Subjects: Computer science education

General Terms:
Design