Operating Systems, Fall 2013

Mon Aug 26 Overview of system software

Wed Aug 28 C for experienced programmers (skim a Manual of C Style)

Fri Aug 30 A brief history [last free drop]

Mon Sep 2 No class [Labor Day (secular)]

Fri Sep 6 No class [Rosh Hashanah II (Jewish)]

Mon Sep 9 An example shell: mush, a minimally usable shell [Ganesh Chathrthi (Hindu)]

Wed Sep 11 A bare-bones system [last undergrad add, last refund for drop]

Fri Sep 13 Object code, loaders and linkers [Bad luck (modern superstition)]

Mon Sep 16 Unix loading and linking (read about makefiles in the Manual of C Style) [Onam (Hindu)]

Wed Sep 18 Loaders

Fri Sep 20 Files, open files, and devices [Succot II (Jewish)]

Mon Sep 23 FIFO queues [Succot V (Jewish)]

Wed Sep 25 Interrupts and critical sections [Succot VII (Jewish)]

Fri Sep 27 No class [Simchat Torah (Jewish)]

Mon Sep 30 Interrupts and critical sections

Wed Oct 2 A complete device driver

Fri Oct 4 Disk drivers and scheduling

Mon Oct 7 Disk scheduling policies

Wed Oct 9 Virtual disks vs disk files

Fri Oct 11 File systems and directories

Mon Oct 14 Midterm Exam [Dusshera (Hindu)]

Wed Oct 16 the CAP ... garbage collector / The CAP filing system [midterm day] [Eid Ul Adha (Islam)]

Fri Oct 18 Virtual memory

Mon Oct 21 Page fault service

Wed Oct 23 More paging

Fri Oct 25 Paged-segmented memory

Mon Oct 28 The Unix memory model

Wed Oct 30 Dynamic storage allocation

Fri Nov 1 The buddy system

Mon Nov 4 Fragmentation, boundary tags [last undergrad drop]

Wed Nov 6 Garbage Collection [Al Hijira (Islam)]

Fri Nov 8 The idea of processes and threads

Mon Nov 11 Thread and Process States

Wed Nov 13 Implementing scheduling services [Ashura (Islam)]

Fri Nov 15 More Implementation

Mon Nov 18 Heavyweight processes, Lightweight threads [preregistration begins]

Wed Nov 20 Concurrent programming

Fri Nov 22 Dekker's Algorithm

Mon Dec 2 Monitors, the Ada Rendezvous, and client-server systems [Hanukkah V (Jewish)]

Wed Dec 4 Clients and servers: Task Communication in Demos [Hanukkah VII (Jewish)]

Fri Dec 6 Amoeba

Mon Dec 9 Amoeba Message Delivery

Wed Dec 11 Networks The ISO OSI model

Fri Dec 13 Review [last day of class] [Bad luck (modern superstition)]

Thu Dec 19 FINAL EXAM, 8-10 PM, 112 MacBride Hall

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