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

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.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: SIGCSE
• Authors: Benjamin Atkin, Emin Gün Sirer
• Keywords: Complete User-level Operating, Education, Operating System, Operating System Projects, SIGCSE 2002