I am currently in a 300 level OS class. Our projects comprise of simulations of OS components such as file systems, memory management and process management. Though not specific to any platform or OS, we do have a SUN lab (but I still use Linux). The programs that we write comprise more or less of an emulated component. For instance, the file system we write resides in memory (unless I add a feature to write the memory contents to a hard file). The cool thing is that we get to design our own file system, adding the features that we like from real file systems. An advantage to emulating the file system is that it reduces the burden of me having to figure out how to physically write to the hard drive (and quite possibly break it). My file system project is due Tuesday, by the way, and I am not quite done;-)
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I am currently in a 300 level OS class. Our projects comprise of simulations of OS components such as file systems, memory management and process management. Though not specific to any platform or OS, we do have a SUN lab (but I still use Linux). The programs that we write comprise more or less of an emulated component. For instance, the file system we write resides in memory (unless I add a feature to write the memory contents to a hard file). The cool thing is that we get to design our own file system, adding the features that we like from real file systems. An advantage to emulating the file system is that it reduces the burden of me having to figure out how to physically write to the hard drive (and quite possibly break it). My file system project is due Tuesday, by the way, and I am not quite done ;-)