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From: norskog@fortune.UUCP (Lance Norskog)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.research,net.cse
Subject: Re: Should Universities Explore... Re: 'toy OS'
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Date: Thu, 5-Apr-84 19:40:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  5 19:40:16 1984
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Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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The amount of detail that you have to learn to muck about with OS
internals is such that only the very hot students will really get much
out of the course, and the rest will flounder around learning assembler
syntax and such-like.  A good toy OS for teaching purposes would be
just a very simple interpreted machine, that way you could build a 
nice assembler/debugger and a very simple interrupt model, etc.,
and have more time free for students to experiment.

Lance C. Norskog
Fortune Systems, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA
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