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Operating System Development Series (2008)

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Re: Operating System Development Series (2008)

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Post by mentos »

Would it be possible to move more parts of the operating system into hardware to realize an improvement in speed? So for example say Microsoft announced Windows 10 was the perfect operating system and needed no new features/bug fixes would it make sense and would it be possible to realize the OS software in hardware?

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Post by CommanderNyx »

MichailP wrote: post #2

Anybody aware of nice, complete video lectures for Operating Systems class? There were lectures from Stanford, but only sessions with profesor, no TA session.

I've been looking at this to review OS fundamentals: https://www.udacity.com/course/introduction-to-operating-sys...

and also this: https://www.udacity.com/course/advanced-operating-systems--u...

My university also has its own recordings for the introductory OS class: https://recordings.engineering.illinois.edu:8443/ess/portal/...

with the corresponding course website (for the latest term): http://illinois-cs.github.io/ and lab slides http://weichunstevelee.github.io/labs.html

Unfortunately, access to the machine problems code isn't available unless you are an enrolled student.

But if you are looking just for video recordings, what I linked to is a decent resource.

For Operating Systems Design (a more advanced course): https://recordings.engineering.illinois.edu:8443/ess/portal/...

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Post by renlo »

mentos wrote: post #5

Would it be possible to move more parts of the operating system into hardware to realize an improvement in speed? So for example say Microsoft announced Windows 10 was the perfect operating system and needed no new features/bug fixes would it make sense and would it be possible to realize the OS software in hardware?

In chapter 2 of the tutorial, he mentions Commodore DOS as being an OS which resides in ROM (read only memory), which means it's definitely possible. I'm just a laymen but I'd wager that there are some cases where this is still done.

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Post by loonattic »

mentos wrote: post #5

Would it be possible to move more parts of the operating system into hardware to realize an improvement in speed? So for example say Microsoft announced Windows 10 was the perfect operating system and needed no new features/bug fixes would it make sense and would it be possible to realize the OS software in hardware?

Computer hardware used to provide higher level abstractions. An example is the Burroughs B5000. Kind of the opposite of RISC?
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