Syllabus for CS 505, Operating Systems Concepts

Fall 2004

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 (Tuesday, 7 September, through Tuesday, 16 September)

Readings: Nutt: Chapters 1 through 4, Chapter 2 optional.
Class notes: Introduction
System architecture
Operating system organization
OS abstraction

Section 2 - Processes (Tuesday, 21 September through Tuesday, 12 October)

Readings: Nutt: Chapters 6, 7, Sections 2.2 and 2.3, and 8.
Class notes: Process Management
Scheduling
Concurrency
Concurrent coordination
Case study: system call times.
Case study: processes vs. threads
One-minute reviews: 23 September
7 October
Project notes: Hardware architecture (last modified on 14 November 2004).
The architecture simulator (last modified on 13 November 2004).
Assignment: Process management assignment (last modified on 13 November 2004) available on Tuesday, 21 September; due on Tuesday, 12 October at 2:00 p.m.
Test - Tuesday, 12 October.: The answers
The grades

Section 3 - Input-Output (Tuesday, 12 October through Tuesday, 2 November)

Readings: Nutt: Chapter 5, 9, and 10.
Class notes: Device management
Synchronization revisited
Resource management and deadlock
One-minute reviews: 29 October
Assignment: Process-management assignment due Tuesday, 12 October at 2:00 p.m.
The grades
An example solution

Device-management assignment (last modified on 13 November 2004) available on Thursday, 14 October; due on Thursday, 4 November at 2:00 p.m.
Test - Tuesday, 2 November.: The answers
The grades

Section 4 - Memory Management (Tuesday, 2 November through Tuesday, 23 November)

Drop Day - Tuesday, 9 November
Readings: Nutt: Chapters 11 and 12.
Class notes: Memory management
Virtual memory
Page management
Segmented memory
Assignment: Device-management assignment due Tuesday, 2 November at 2:00 p.m.
The grades
An example solution

Memory-management assignment (last modified on 14 November 2004) available on Tuesday, 2 November; due on Tuesday, 23 November at 2:00 p.m.
Test - Tuesday, 23 November.: The answers.
The grades.

Section 5 - File Systems and Protection (Tuesday, 23 November through Tuesday, 14 December)

No class - Thursday, 25 November: Thanksgiving
Readings: Nutt: Chapters 13 and 14.
Class notes: File basics
Implementing files
Directories
File systems
Security and protection
Assignment: Device management assignment due Tuesday, 23 November at 2:00 p.m.

File management assignment (last modified on 2 December 2004) available on Tuesday, 23 November; due on Tuesday, 14 December at 2:00 p.m.
Test - Tuesday, 14 December.

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