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an educational and experimental research framework
to aid in teaching operating system concepts using object-oriented software design patterns &
techniques and visualization
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Visual OSimulator is built using the following middleware technologies:
We are in the process of redesigning & restructuring the architecture for
Visual OSimulator. This decision was made because a lot of the new features we are adding
to the next version is causing us to lose focus of our some of our project goals such as:
- Providing a simulation tool that provides visualization without having to know
how to program the visual aspect of the tool.
- Providing a simulation tool that is platform/system independent.
What does the future hold?
Becuase we are in the process of redesigning and restructuring the entire
architecture, we do not have a projected release date for the next version.
The next release will have the following:
- Support for writing file manager modules
- Support for network communication between
- Support for managing real applications
- Support for creating real applications that use Visual OSimulator
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Congrats! It's a Visual OSimulator!
Visual OSimulator started as a small interest project I
[James H. Hill]
began when I was an undergraduate at Morehouse College. I was always interested in operating
system and wanted to create my own, but at the time I did not have the resources. Furthermore,
I was taking an introduction to operating systems course, and although the projects
we completed were fun, I personally did not like using console screen dumps to debug them. Also,
when I tried to find operating system simulators, they were either Linux based (I had a Windows PC
at the time) or did not have what I wanted. Thus, I set out on a mission to design an operating
system simulation tool that had what I wanted.
Distribution
Visual OSimulator is distributed as freeware, but we, currently, do not include the
source code in the distribution. We only distribute it in binary form and give you the necessary
header files.
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