Introduction to System Software, Summer 2004

Lectures are at 12:00 Monday Wednesday and Friday in Room 113 MacLean Hall.

Tue Jun 8 Introduction

Wed Jun 9 Chapter 2, Assemblers

Thu Jun 10 -- grammar and parsers

Fri Jun 11 -- lexical analysis

Mon Jun 14 Chapter 3, Symbol Tables

Tue Jun 15 -- hashing

Wed Jun 16 Chapter 4, Forward References

Thu Jun 17 Chapter 5, Extending the Example

Fri Jun 18 -- expressions

Mon Jun 21 -- compilers

Tue Jun 22 Chapter 6, Macros & Conditonals

Wed Jun 23 Chapter 7, Linkers and Loaders

Thu Jun 24 -- Linkers and Libraries

Fri Jun 25 Midterm Exam I

Mon Jun 28 Chapter 8, Command Languages

Tue Jun 29 -- Scripts

Wed Jun 30 Chapter 9, Sequential Devices

Thu Jul 1 -- Device Independence and Direct Memory Access

Fri Jul 2 Chapter 10, I/O Queues

Tue Jul 6 -- Interrupts and Critical Sections

Wed Jul 7 Chapter 11, Disks

Thu Jul 8 -- Disk Drivers

Fri Jul 9 -- Disk Scheduling Policies

Mon Jul 12 Chapter 12, File Systems

Tue Jul 13 -- File Access and Directory Management

Wed Jul 14 Chapter 13, Virtual Memory

Thu Jul 15 -- Page Fault Service

Fri Jul 16 -- Page Replacement Policies

Mon Jul 19 Midterm Exam II

Tue Jul 20 Chapter 14, Dynamic Storage Allocation

Wed Jul 21 -- The Buddy System and Boundary Tags

Thu Jul 22 Chapter 15, Calling Sequences

Fri Jul 23 -- Coroutines and Processes

Mon Jul 26 Chapter 16, Schedulers

Tue Jul 27 Chapter 17, Concurrent Programming

Wed Jul 28 -- Classic Problems

Thu Jul 29 Chapter 18, Security and Protection

Fri Jul 30 Final Exam