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A new instructional operating system

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David A. Holland,

Ada T. Lim,

Margo I. SeltzerAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '02: Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 111 - 115

https://doi.org/10.1145/563340.563383

Published: 27 February 2002 Publication History

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This paper presents a new instructional operating system, OS/161, and simulated execution environment, System/161, for use in teaching an introductory undergraduate operating systems course. We describe the new system, the assignments used in our course, and our experience teaching using the new system.

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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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Judith Gersting
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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 34, Issue 1
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March 2002
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ISSN:0097-8418
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