A Swapping Implementation for the Minix Operating System

This thesis discusses the implementation of swapping for the MINIX operating system on the IBM PC/AT. MINIX is a UNIX(TM) -like operating system that was originally implemented on the IBM PC. The architecture of MINIX was limited by the architecture of the platform of the original implementation. Some of these limitations were eased by moving the platform to the IBM PC/AT, but the PC/AT had its own limitations which impacted this implementation. These issues are discussed in further detail. The modifications made to MINIX in order to support swapping are discussed and the difference and code listings of these changes are presented in the appendices.