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Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system


Introduction Xv6 is a teaching operating system developed in the summer of 2006, which we ported xv6 to RISC-V for a new undergraduate class 6.1810. Xv6 sources and text The latest xv6 source and text are available via git clone https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv.git and git clone https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv-book.git Unix Version 6 xv6 is inspired by Unix V6 and by: - Lions' Commentary on UNIX' 6th Edition, John Lions, Peer to Peer Communications; ISBN: 1-57398-013-7; 1st edition (June 14, 2000).

Xv6 is a teaching operating system developed in the summer of 2006, which we ported xv6 to RISC-V for a new undergraduate class 6.1810. The following are useful to read the original code: The PDP11/40 Processor Handbook, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1972. A PDF(made from scanned images, and not text-searchable) A web-based version that is indexed by instruction name.

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