EduSpace Operating Shell Sample Clauses

EduSpace Operating Shell. The EduSpace Operating Shell (EOS) is modeled on the successful Virtual Environment Operating System (VEOS) developed by ▇▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and his students at HITL over the last three years (▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 1990). Oz has negotiated an option for an exclusive license to use the VEOS for commercial training systems, and has a long term memorandum of agreement to support and develop future HITL software prototypes which use VEOS. The Oz exclusive license to VEOS 2.2 is for training and educational applications of the software technology incorporated in the VEOS architectural design, its implementation details and its supporting software tools. Oz will use the VEOS architecture to guide the design of the EduSpace Accelerator Board and the EduSpace Operating Shell . The resulting integrated architecture will provide an very-reduced-instruction-set implementation with the advantages of realtime interactivity and the efficiency of compiled code. The EAB will provide the speed-up necessary to convert VEOS from a prototype to a product. In adapting VEOS, EduSpace will use ▇▇▇▇▇-like data storage and retrieval models to define the MS-Chip data structures. SHELL-like facilities will coordinate the data sets for entities active in each display environment. TALK-like input/output ports will coordinate inter-processor communication, and FERN-like management algorithms will provide overall coherence to each virtual entity in the system, whether it is a display entity, a resource entity, or an abstract entity. A central advantage of EOS is that the insertion of a declaration into the database during runtime will change the display environment immediately. EOS will provide realtime interaction with virtual and multimedia worlds, permitting very rapid prototyping of instructional designs and construction of virtual entities while an EduSpace application is running.