CS162的Operating Systems andSystems Programming.pptVIP

CS162Operating Systems andSystems ProgrammingLecture 27Peer-to-peer Systemsand Other Topics December 7th, 2005 Prof. John Kubiatowicz /~cs162 Goals for Today A couple of requested topics Windows vs. Linux Trusted Computing Peer-to-Peer Systems OceanStore Requests for Final topics Some topics people requested: More about device drivers Xbox/Playstation/gamecube/etc operating systems Windows vs Linux Trusted computing platforms About Device Drivers Well, very complex topic. Documentation associated with various operating systems Many similarities, many differences Good place to start: Chapter 6 of “The design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System” (on reserve for this class) Xbox vs Playstation etc Well, most of these are custom OSs. Original Xbox ran modified version of Window 2000 New Xbox 360 rumored to run modified version of original Xbox OS (i.e. a modified2 version of Windows 2000) Most important property: Real Time scheduling Ability to meet scheduling deadlines Windows vs Linux Windows came from personal computer domain Add-on to IBM PC providing a windowing user interface Became “good at” doing graphical interfaces Didn’t have protection until Windows NT Multiple users supported (starting with Window NT), but can’t necessarily have multiple GUIs running at same time Product differentiation model: Purchase separate products to get email, web servers, file servers, compilers, debuggers… Linux came from long line of UNIX Mainframe OSs Targeted at high-performance computation and I/O High performance servers GUI historically lacking compared to Windows Protection model from beginning Multiple users supported at core of OS Full function Mainframe OS: email, web servers, file servers, ftp servers, compilers, debuggers, etc. Windows vs Linux Internal Structure is different Windows XP evolved from NT which was a microkernel Core “executive” runs in protected mode Many services run in user mode (Although Windowing runs inside kernel for per