Authors: Austin Fahsl, Alex Memering and Joel Shapiro.

The goal of the overall project is to create a very small, but working, operating system.

Run 'make' from the top level directory (aka just inside the m5 folder in the SVN repo). This will compile everything and start 'bochs' bringing you right to the console.

Type 'help' into the console. Then type into the console and run the commands that it lists with valid parameters as it instructs.

• Parameter checking We do not check any of the parameters that are given to any of the shell commands; so make sure that they are valid.
• Shell indicator Because commands are running on different processes then they may appear to print their output in the inccorect order (or spliced together).
• Same name files Multiple files with the same name can be created but only the first file with that name will ever be accessed.
• Process switching Apperently processes seem to only switch over when they use interrupts.

• top We have implemented the "top" command, which functions just as the "top" command in linux. When run, it displays a list of all top-level processes that are currently running.
• dir The "dir" command displays the files in the filesystem, as per requirement. However, it also shows the size of each file in the system.
• Backspace printing space By default, a backspace character will only move the cursor back and not change the character displayed on the screen at the location of the cursor. However, we have changed this to print a space at the previous location of the cursor, which makes the backspace key actually delete the character on the screen as well as in the buffer.
• help The "help" command shows a list of all of the other commands, what each of their purposes is, and calling procedures and parameters of each command.
• edit The "edit" command allows for the editing of an existing file. It uses the same line-by-line interface that "create" does, which uses to move to the next line and eventually exit the file.

Please note that the excuteProgram method in kernel.c still takes two parameters, however this is because the second parameter is purely used by the kernel itself. It is used since the blocking execute is very similar so the methods were just combined and the second parameter is the differentiator.