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Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system

• jrockway 16y ago
  I'm looking forward to version 11, so I can ask a question like "can you run X11R6 on X6R11?".
• bconway 16y ago
  For many years, MIT had no operating systems course. In the fall of 2002, Frans Kaashoek, Josh Cates, and Emil Sit created a new, experimental course (6.097)... That seems pretty shocking, unless they meant in name only. What was the next closest thing?
• aidenn0 16y ago
  "Students doubted the relevance of an obsolete 30-year-old operating system written in an obsolete programming language" And an operating system not used in the industry but just used for teaching is going to be more credibly relevant?
• Luyt 16y ago
  I saw this fragment in the source code: case T_IRQ0: // Bochs generates spurious IDE1 interrupts. break; Evidence that they run their educational OS in a virtual machine.