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Xv6 is a simple teaching operating system with many features missing. In the class projects, you implement some of those missing features using the C programming language.
 
Xv6 is a simple teaching operating system with many features missing. In the class projects, you implement some of those missing features using the C programming language.
   
 
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=== Spring 2020 "Rust-mester" ===
 
=== Spring 2020 "Rust-mester" ===

Revision as of 22:32, 11 May 2021

Overview

This class teaches some Operating Systems (OS) concepts such as:

  • Bootloading (how the processor wakes up and loads the OS kernel)
  • Memory Paging
  • Process Scheduling
  • File systems

Additionally, you learn about some networking concepts.

This class is heavily project-based.

Current Registration Info

Just a regular class

Past Semesters

Fall 2020

4 projects, 1 midterm, 1 final

Projects were on Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system, with much of the class material from the associated open-source textbook.

Xv6 is a simple teaching operating system with many features missing. In the class projects, you implement some of those missing features using the C programming language.

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Spring 2020 "Rust-mester"

Apparently, the project was very difficult. It involved writing an OS kernel from scratch using the Rust programming languages and testing it on a Raspberry Pi