Pintos
Original author(s)Ben Pfaff
Developer(s)Ben Pfaff
Initial release2004 (2004)
Written inC
Platformx86
Available inEnglish
LicenseBSD-like
Websitewww.scs.stanford.edu/11wi-cs140/labs/project.html

Pintos is computer software, a simple instructional operating system framework for the x86 instruction set architecture. It supports kernel threads, loading and running user programs, and a file system, but it implements all of these in a very simple way.

Pintos is currently used by multiple institutions, including UT Austin,[1] UC Berkeley[2] and Imperial College London,[3] as an academic aid in Operating Systems class curriculums.

History

It was created at Stanford University by Ben Pfaff in 2004.[4] It originated as a replacement for Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System (Nachos), a similar system originally developed at UC Berkeley by Thomas E. Anderson, and was designed along similar lines.[5]

Comparison to Nachos

Like Nachos, Pintos is intended to introduce undergraduates to concepts in operating system design and implementation by requiring them to implement significant portions of a real operating system, including thread and memory management and file system access. Pintos also teaches students valuable debugging skills.

Unlike Nachos, Pintos can run on actual x86 hardware, though it is often run atop an x86 emulator, such as Bochs or QEMU. Nachos, by contrast, runs as a user process on a host operating system, and targets the MIPS architecture (Nachos code must run atop a MIPS simulator).[5] Pintos and its accompanying assignments are also written in the programming language C instead of C++ (used for original Nachos) or Java (used for Nachos 5.0j).

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Pintos Projects: Table of Contents". www.cs.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
  2. ↑ https://cs162.eecs.berkeley.edu/
  3. ↑ "OS Lab Project". Imperial College London. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
  4. ↑ Pintos, by Ben Pfaff, PDF
  5. 1 2 "Pintos Projects: Introduction". Retrieved 2007-04-17.


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