Experience Operating Systems

Teaching operating system need also practical experiments. Practical exercises in operating system up to now suffer from a high complexity of the experimental system, from concealing the internals of the operating system, and a scarce visibility of the phenomenon. The new capabilities of modern computers, and devices, respectively, associated with new concepts of operating system practical exercises can get over that shortage. The keys in our approach of operating system practical exercises are decomposition in distinct phenomenona, real-time observation of the causal connection from cause to effect in real-time, and modern presentation by multimedia. The idea of such kind of operating system practical exercises and a lot of experiments following this approach were developed by the chairs ”Operating Systems“ at the University of Karlsruhe and the Chemnitz University of Technology.