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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 07:39:00 PST
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- From: Michael Stein <CSYSMAS@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: questions about the new year
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- > Once again I am getting ready to teach our (applied) operating systems course.
- > I draw this straw every couple years. And this time I am more confused than
- > ever.
- >
- > The trade press makes it sound as if everyone is abandoning mainframes for uni
- > boxes, networked pc's, and the like. I ask myself what I should really
- > emphasize in my course. I think one answer is that the basics haven't changed
- > that much and I still must deliver them. But how to package them - what
- > system(s) to use for examples and exercises - those are the questions.
-
- I'd go with the basics, and studies of some existing operating
- systems. You'd want systems which were different enough
- so that different areas or solutions to the basics would
- be demonstrated.
-
- IBM's MVS/ESA for multi-programming/multi-processing issues,
- including SRBs and interrupt routines/DIE exits, as well as
- virtual memory via paging (with interruptable instructions) and
- I/O issues in a virtual memory environment.
-
- One of the UNIX's?
-
- The Mach kernal?
-
- Multix?
-
- MS-DOS (to show how everything can be done wrong or at least
- be missing - a non-operating system).
-