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PortOS: an educational operating system for the Post-PC environment

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 34, Issue 1

Pages 116 - 120

https://doi.org/10.1145/563517.563384

Published: 27 February 2002 Publication History

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In this paper, we describe PortOS, an educational operating system designed to complement undergraduate and graduate level classes on operating systems. PortOS is a complete user-level operating system project, with phases covering concurrency, synchronization, networking and file systems. It focuses particularly on ad hoc and peer-to-peer distributed computing on mobile devices. This paper discusses alternative approaches to operating system projects, and presents our particular design point along with pedagogical justifications.

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PortOS: an educational operating system for the Post-PC environment
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 34, Issue 1

Inroads: paving the way towards excellence in computing education

March 2002

417 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/563517

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SIGCSE '02: Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
February 2002
471 pages
ISBN:1581134738
DOI:10.1145/563340
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Grinnell College
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Grand Valley State University

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