Realism and simplicity: Disk simulation for instructional OS performance evaluation

Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 308-312

  DeRosa, Peter ^a   Shen, Kai ^a   Stewart, Christopher ^a   Pearson, Jonathan ^a  

^a University of Rochester

Author keywords

Disk simulation; Operating systems; Performance evaluation; Virtual machine

Indexed keywords

DISK SIMULATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; STUDENTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 37849033882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121341.1121436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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