Any pedagogical operating system project offered as part of an undergraduate junior level operating system course needs to satisfy two requirements:

1. The student must be given as much depth and detail as possible about the central operating system concepts.
2. The quantity of work involved must not exceed what a student is able to do in a four month semester.

The problem before the teacher is to decide on how much compromise on (1) must be done in favour of (2). eXpOS is our stance in this matter.

There are three central principles that have been kept in mind in designing the eXpOS educational tool:

• Separation of concerns
• Things shall be made as simple as possible, but no simpler
• “Build to learn” rather than “learn to build”

Read in full here:

This thread was posted by one of our members via one of our news source trackers.