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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
An examination of operating systems laboratory techniques
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Animating operating systems algorithms with XTANGO
SIGCSE '94 Proceedings of the twenty-fifth SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
O.S. bridge between academia and reality
SIGCSE '95 Proceedings of the twenty-sixth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Should undergraduates explore internals of workstation operating systems
SIGCSE '90 Proceedings of the twenty-first SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
An undergraduate operating systems lab course
SIGCSE '90 Proceedings of the twenty-first SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
A survey of methods used to evaluate computer science teaching
ITiCSE '98 Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on the teaching of computing and the 3rd annual conference on Integrating technology into computer science education: Changing the delivery of computer science education
A secure unrestricted advanced systems laboratory
SIGCSE '99 The proceedings of the thirtieth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
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This paper describes a laboratory environment for teaching operating systems. The EOS (Exploratory Operating Systems) lab was developed with a National Science Foundation ILI grant to be used in conjunction with a traditional operating systems (OS) course. The main goal of the EOS project was to improve the teaching of operating system principles without the necessity of a special purpose laboratory and the addition to the curriculum of a second course in OS. The EOS labs are summarized and a CPU scheduling lab is described in some detail. A standardized testing instrument was used to compare class performance before and after adding the lab to the OS course. Preliminary results show an improvement attributable to the EOS laboratory. The author's experience in building a workstation laboratory from an externally funded grant is described.