Meeting 2
| Date: | April 10, 2004 |
Where: | MCA 220 |
Purpose: | Getting Started |
To do: | Set up a schedule of what and start preparing for presentation
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1. Practical
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- we decided on vmware --> easier to restart
- visual source safe --> easy to maintain
- set up pc as server
- WINDOWS XP
- c/c++ compiler (visual)
- assembler nasm
We will form subcommittees for various parts
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2. Filesystem
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- structure
- nr. files on system (limit)
- nr. directories ( more then 1 level)
- type of extensions in header
- max size of files
- contents of the headerfile
- 0000=free
- 0001=file
- 0010=continuing a file
- freelist of free blocks
- block = 512 bytes
- implement in C
- thursday file system
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3. Process management
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4.I/O management
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5. 2nd Semester
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Multitasking/multi-processing
Networking
Security
Can we make it graphical
Can we partition the disk in 3 having Linux/Own/Windows
"Bootmenu"
Creating the ideal educational tool --> With tutorial
Lets create a user program that runs on the three operating systems
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