TY - JOUR
T1 - Xinu/WU
T2 - An improved PC-Xinu clone?
AU - Hummel, J.
PY - 1989/2/1
Y1 - 1989/2/1
N2 - In teaching an undergraduate course in Operating Systems, it is instructive if the students have an actual operating system they can study and modify. Care should be taken, however, in selecting a system that the students can realistically be expected to understand. Xinu/WU retains the advantages of its parent PC-Xinu [Fossum 1987]; a small yet relatively complete operating system for the IBM PC, supplied with full source code and able to run within its development environment. Xinu/WU incorporates three particular enhancements: an improved implementation, integration into Borland International's Turbo C#8482; run-time environment, and more effective use of the windowing system. The conclusion is that Xinu/WU increases the possibility of using such a system in an undergraduate Operating Systems course. Two ways in which it can be utilized are presented.
AB - In teaching an undergraduate course in Operating Systems, it is instructive if the students have an actual operating system they can study and modify. Care should be taken, however, in selecting a system that the students can realistically be expected to understand. Xinu/WU retains the advantages of its parent PC-Xinu [Fossum 1987]; a small yet relatively complete operating system for the IBM PC, supplied with full source code and able to run within its development environment. Xinu/WU incorporates three particular enhancements: an improved implementation, integration into Borland International's Turbo C#8482; run-time environment, and more effective use of the windowing system. The conclusion is that Xinu/WU increases the possibility of using such a system in an undergraduate Operating Systems course. Two ways in which it can be utilized are presented.
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U2 - 10.1145/65294.71218
DO - 10.1145/65294.71218
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0024611075
VL - 21
SP - 226
EP - 230
JO - SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)
JF - SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)
SN - 0097-8418
IS - 1
ER -