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The principle and security of operating system Lecture 2 History of the World Parts 1—5 Operating Systems Structures th August 30 , 2010 Wang Xueyi Goals for Today • Operating Systems Structure • History of Operating Systems – Really a history of resource-driven choices • Operating Systems Organizations • Abstractions and layering Note: Some slides and/or pictures in the following are adapted from slides © 2005 Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne. Many slides generated from lecture notes by Joseph. 8/30/2010 Wang Xueyi Software College @ NEU 2010 Lec 2.2 What if we didn’t have an Operating System? • Source CodeCompilerObject CodeHardware • How do you get object code onto the hardware? • How do you print out the answer? • Once upon a time, had to Toggle in program in binary and read out answer from LED’s! Altair 8080 8/30/2010 Wang Xueyi Software College @ NEU 2010 Lec 2.3 Simple OS: What if only one application? • Examples: – Very early computers – Early PCs – Embedded controllers (elevators, cars, etc) • OS becomes just a library of standard services – Standard device drivers – Interrupt handlers – Math libraries 8/30/2010 Wang Xueyi Software College @ NEU 2010 Lec 2.4 MS-DOS Layer Structure 8/30/2010 Wang Xueyi Software College @ NEU 2010 Lec 2.5 More thoughts on Simple OS • What about Cell-phones, Xboxes, etc? – Is this organization enough? • Can OS be encoded in ROM/Flash ROM? • Does OS have to be software? – Can it be Hard