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by animal_spirits
1607 days ago
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I took an operating systems course at Purdue in which we built the Xinu OS from (almost) scratch [1]. Almost all of us had no real experience with a _big_ project like this before, and the most important thing thing that I learned was how to be comfortable with a large system of different moving parts that all need to interop together. I learned a lot about how processes work, C memory management, and shells, but I don't ever use that in my day to day. It is fun to know kind of what is going on way behind the scenes when I'm using my computer, but knowing the low level datastructures really hasn't been practical for me while the big picture of the project impacted me greatly. [1] https://xinu.cs.purdue.edu/ |
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