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A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events

A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events

exploraz

Comments (26)

  • petee
    Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up
  • donpdonp
    This was fun to play...for about 2 minutes before all the manual work of moving processes around got very tedious, which may be the point of the game. What I would like is a little code edit window where i could code simple routines to handle the scheduling, then be able to watch the result.
  • monocasa
    Fun fact: operating systems were originally programs intended to replace most of the work of a human job description, that of computer operator.
  • monkpit
  • SomeHacker44
    Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?
  • yiyingzhang
    This is cool! I may introduce it to the undergrad OS course I teach at UCSD. Does it have memory hierarchy?
  • armdave
    Cool stuff! Would love to see this recommended in introductory OS classes to give an intuition
  • advisedwang
    Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
  • mephage
    Maybe that's what the Linux scheduler is actually - humans' consciousness stuck inside the computer managing the processes.Sounds like that black mirror multi-part episode "White Christmas".
  • Affric
    Played this originally, glad to see scripting included
  • aranelsurion
    got rebooted at 332k @ normal. maybe being an OS wasn't my calling :)
  • fragmede
    This didn't get a lot of traction the other time I saw it, but one easily imagines this as part of a a game to teach operating systems, starting from no MMU all the way to how we manage distributed supercomputers like a DGX GB300, or Google's borg.
  • drfunk
    sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !
  • dmaginas
    Great idea!