16 Jun
2015
16 Jun
'15
7:50 a.m.
On Jun 15, 2015, at 9:21 PM, ben <bfranchuk at
jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
On 6/15/2015 7:11 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
a) Not online to my knowledge
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd01xx/EWD196.PDF ? the same site that has the full
archive of all EWD papers (except for some very early ones that have been lost) ? a total
of 1300 or so.
On Jun 15, 2015, at 8:09 PM, ben <bfranchuk at
jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
On 6/15/2015 4:42 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
Or you could just read ?The structure of the THE operating system? by
E.W.Dijkstra, and follow its principles. I think Tanenbaum should be fine? A lot of it is
fairly
timeless.
The latest version is *useless*. The racoons on the cover tells
alot. b) Most likely in German
None are in German, naturally, since Dijkstra was Dutch. Some early ones are in Dutch,
but this one is in English.
c) and the most important thing ... I do not have any
Mag Tape
Not relevant; the THE OS does not rely on magtapes. It uses drum for paging and spooling,
but the design is nicely layered so the system also works without drum (this is explicitly
mentioned in one of the reports on its development).
In any case, I did not point to this paper as a specific OS to implement, but rather as a
demonstration of how to design a modest size but quite useful OS, with very modest effort
and extremely high reliability.
EWD1303 (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1303.PDF) is another note about
that effort, looking back from 2000.
paul