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Life & fun · August 14, 2023

You're the OS

A game where you play as the computer OS

You're the OS launched on August 14, 2023 with 121 votes, #499 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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What it does

Imagine a videogame where you are an operating system. You have to manage CPU cores, processes, memory pages and swap space. You have to make sure that no process starves, and to swap memory pages when necessary.

Become a computer operating system and try not to anger the user!

Do you sometimes get frustrated at how slow your computer's operating system can be? Now is your chance to prove that you could do a better job! Behold the nerdiest game ever, in which YOU are the operating system! As such, you have to manage the computer's processes, memory and input/output events, and try not to get rebooted by an impatient user. Good luck! I downloaded the source code and used the scheduler example automation. I see some room for improvement. SO i will make it better. More complexity: Varied CPU strength: Maybe the CPU's could have different clock-speeds (setup in Custom play), and if you put a crowned process in a stronger CPU then it exits gracefully quicker. Eg. a…from plbrault.itch.io

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