Computer Science and Information Systems 2010 Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages: 705-719
https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS070521022R
Full text (
253 KB)
COLIBROS: Educational operating system
Rakić Predrag
Živanov Žarko
Hajduković Miroslav
This paper gives an overview of educational operating system called COLIBROS. It is small, object oriented, library operating system, based on micro-kernel concepts, supporting high level concurrency and synchronization primitives. In fact, COLIBROS is simplified operating system kernel accompanied with hardware emulation layer that emulates keyboard, monitor, disk and interrupt mechanism. A concurrent COLIBROS program behaves like stand alone program executing in emulated environment, in our case as plain GNU/Linux process. Encapsulating all critical concepts in host operating system user space makes COLIBROS development and debugging easier and more user friendly.