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Academic Operating System, goals: to expose students to more modern ideas than older OSs, to basic
OS mechanisms, to OS and language design and prototyping; old version, ideas for new microkernel
version.
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/acados/
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Doug's Simple Operating System: DS/OS
Good way to learn OS programming: balanced amount of functionality for learning: not too much to
overwhelm beginners, yet some advanced features; pure 8086 Assembly (A86 assembler), incompatible
with all other OSs. [Open Source]
http://bioradiation.net/~dsos/
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FDOS
Essay and OS for learning, so people who want to know more of technicals in PCs can find
interesting answers presented easily; FAT 12 file, directory support; 100% NASM, documents, website
in English, German; (c) Stefan Tappertzhofen. [Open Source, GPL]
http://www.visual-opal.de/
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Instinct Operating System
A command-line OS written in x86 assembly, designed as a learning tool for college students and
amateur programmers. Download available. [Open Source]
http://www.lostcommunity.org/
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Nachos/486
Port, extension of instructional OS, now stand-alone, protected mode, multithreaded, compiles in
FreeBSD to run on i486+, can be relinked without recompile. Descriptions, report (HTML, PDF, PS),
download. [Open Source]
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~bah6f/nachos486/
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NACHOS
Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System: teaching OS coded in C++ subset, developed at UC
Berkeley for OS and Systems Programming classes; now used worldwide. Descriptions, FAQ, port and
bug lists, assignments, downloads. [Open Source]
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/tom/nachos/
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Topsy
Teachable Operating System: tiny multithreaded messaging microkernel, in ANSI C; protected threads,
memory managed, and thread/process control. From undergraduate course on concurrency, device
programming, OS concepts. Descriptions, documents, theses, downloads, contacts, links. [Open
Source, GPL]
http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~topsy/
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RCOS
Ron Chernich's OS: computer learning tool animates operation of multi-tasking OS; true OS, runs
programs; object-oriented, message passing kernel lets parts be replaced easily, C++ coded,
portable, runs on DOS, RCOSjava precursor.
http://cq-pan.cqu.edu.au/david-jones/Projects/rcos/
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Amateur OS: AMOS
Scott Billingsley's OS: realtime for DSP and amateur radio, one user/application, 16-bit real mode,
for i386+, FAT 12/16; no TSRs, library of routines to program into apps, minimal kernel support
(minimize interrupts), written in NASM assembly and Sphnix C--.
http://scottie.20m.com/
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KOS
Kid Operating System. Modular (run-time dynamic linking), preemptive multitasking, to have
SVR4-like VM. Begun 1998 by young programmers, most of them students. Goal: not obtaining OS, but
learning OS internals and functioning of x86 processors. Downloads, links, documentation. [Open
Source, GPL]
http://kos.enix.org/
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EduOS
Operating system for the IA-32 (80386+) processors. For education purposes only, includes full
source code, under active development. Needs Linux or BeOS to be compiled. [Open Source]
http://inf4serv.rug.ac.be/~fcorneli/eduos/
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SunriseOS
Tiny operating system written in Assembly, via NASM, by ICT student. Meant for only fun and
learning. [Open Source]
http://www.geocities.com/sunriseos/
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ShawnOS
Sure as Hell Ain't Windows Ninety five, the corner cutting OS due to the original schedule. Always
intended more as a learning experience for author and others than as a practical, useful OS.
Everything done as simply as possible. [Open Source, GPL]
http://www.overwhelmed.org/shawn/
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