Operating Systems, Spring 2012

Wed Jan 18 Overview of system software

Fri Jan 20 C for experienced programmers

Mon Jan 23 A brief history [last free drop]

Wed Jan 25 The Unix shell The C Shell Tutorial

Fri Jan 27 An example shell: mush, a minimally usable shell

Mon Jan 30 A bare-bones system [last add, last refund for drop]

Wed Feb 1 Object code, loaders and linkers

Fri Feb 3 Unix loading and linking (read about makefiles in the Manual of C Style)

Mon Feb 6 Loaders

Wed Feb 8 Files, open files, and devices

Fri Feb 10 An example sequential device

Mon Feb 13 FIFO queues

Wed Feb 15 Interrupts and critical sections

Fri Feb 17 A complete device driver

Mon Feb 20 Disk hardware [Mahashivaratri (Hindu)]

Wed Feb 22 Basic disk driver structure [Ash Wednesday (Western Christian)]

Fri Feb 24 Disk scheduling policies

Mon Mar 27 Virtual disks vs disk files

Wed Feb 29 File systems and directories

Fri Mar 2 Review

Mon Mar 5 Midterm Exam

Fri Mar 9 Virtual memory [Hola Mohalla (Punjabi)]

Mon Mar 19 Page fault service

Wed Mar 21 More paging

Fri Mar 23 Paged-segmented memory

Mon Mar 26 The Unix memory model

Wed Mar 28 Dynamic storage allocation

Fri Mar 30 The buddy system

Mon Apr 2 Fragmentation, boundary tags [last undergrad drop]

Fri Apr 6 The idea of processes and threads [Good Friday (Western Christian)]

Mon Apr 9 Thread and Process States [Passover day 3 (Jewish)]

Wed Apr 11 Implementing scheduling services [Passover day 5 (Jewish)]

Fri Apr 13 More Implementation [Passover day 7 (Jewish)] [Good Friday (Eastern)] [Baisakhi (Sikh)]

Mon Apr 16 Heavyweight processes, Lightweight threads [preregistration begins]

Wed Apr 18 Concurrent programming

Wed Apr 25 Clients and servers: Task Communication in Demos

Fri Apr 27 Amoeba

Mon Apr 30 Amoeba Message Delivery

Wed May 2 Networks The ISO OSI model

Fri May 4 Review [last day of class]

Tue May 8 FINAL EXAM, 3:00 PM