Syllabus for CS 505, Operating Systems Concepts

Fall 2002

The course is divided into one two-week introdouction and four three-week sections; each section covers a major part of an operating system:

Note: The phrase "x through y" means "from the start of x up to and including the end of y."

Section 1 - Introduction (Wednesday, 4 September, through Monday, 16 September)

Readings: Chapters 1 and 11.
Class notes: Introduction
OS abstraction
System architecture
Operating system organization
One-minute reviews: 9-11 September

Section 2 - Processes (Wednesday, 18 September through Wednesday, 9 October)

Founder's Day - Wednesday, 9 October: Class begins at 4:30 p.m.
Readings: Chapters 4 and 6.
Class notes: Process Management
Scheduling
Concurrency
Threads
Fork vs. Threads
Project notes: Hardware architecture (last modified on 9 December 2002).
The architecture simulator (last modified on 18 September 2002).
One-minute reviews: 16-18 September
23-25 September
30 September-3 October
Assignment: Process management assignment (last modified on 31 October 2002) available on Wednesday, 18 September; due on Wednesday, 9 October at 2:00 p.m.
Test - Wednesday, 9 October.: The answers
The grades

Section 3 - Input-Output (Wednesday, 9 October through Wednesday, 30 October)

Readings: Chapters 5 and 7.
Class notes: Device management
Resource management and deadlock
Synchronization revisited
One-minute reviews: 22-24 October
Assignment: Process management assignment due Wednesday, 9 October at 2:00 p.m.
The grades
An example solution

Device management assignment (last modified on 9 December 2002) available on Saturday, 13 September; due on Saturday, 2 November at 2:00 p.m.
Test - Wednesday, 30 October.: The answers
The grades

Section 4 - Memory Management (Wednesday, 30 October through Wednesday, 20 November)

Drop Day - Wednesday, 6 November
Readings: Chapters 2 and 3.
Class notes: Memory management
Virtual memory
One-minute reviews: 4-6 November
11-13 November
Assignment: Device management assignment due Saturday, 14 December, at 2:00 p.m.
The grades

Memory management assignment (last modified on 9 December 2002) available on Wednesday, 30 October; due on Wednesday, 20 November at 2:00 p.m.
Test - Wednesday, 20 November.: The answers
The grades

Section 5 - File Systems and Protection (Wednesday, 20 November through Wednesday, 11 December)

Readings: Chapter 8.
Class notes: File basics
Implementing files
Directories
File systems
Security and protection
Assignment: Memory management assignment due Saturday, 14 December at 2:00 p.m.
The grades

File management assignment available on Wednesday, 20 November; due on Wednesday, 11 December at 2:00 p.m.
Test - Wednesday, 11 December.: The answers
The grades

Open Lecture on distributed operating systems from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, 16 December, in L 512.

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