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TOS: an educational distributed operating system in Java

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This paper describes TOS - an educational distributed operating system implemented in Java. First the current trends in commercial operating systems are shortly presented and compared with several available educational operating systems. Next we give our rationals to use Java as the TOS implementation language. Then the architecture of the system and its components - launchers and servers are described. Finally we explain the advantages of this architecture and give some examples of possible student projects and assignments.

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          SIGCSE '01: Proceedings of the thirty-second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education
          February 2001
          456 pages
          ISBN:1581133294
          DOI:10.1145/364447

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