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Subject: Re: Minix as a teaching OS
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Date: 15 Mar 89 21:44:00 GMT
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/* Written  2:34 pm  Mar  8, 1989 by jk0@sun.soe.clarkson.edu in iuvax:comp.os.minix */
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	Minix is a wonderful OS for an Operating Systems because it
gives you the entire picture of how the components of an operating
system fit together (Thanks Andy!!).  However, part of an OS course will
involve changing the scheduler, MM, or FS and Minix has no statistical
functions to tell you what your new code does. 
	Does anyone have any such software that can be used?

	Tanenbaum's book is probably the clearest book ever written on
the subject of OS's (Again, THANKS ANDY!!).  However, we've found that
the code in the chapters dealing with things that Minix doesn't have
(monitors, etc) is a litle too conceptual.  We are considering the use
of SmallTalk or Scheme which can be used to implement schedulers,
monitors, etc quite easily as real code which can be experimented with. 
Does anyone have any opinions or ideas?	

--
Jason Coughlin
( jk0@clutx.clarkson.edu , jk0@clutx )
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