Useful Links

Syllabus
Honor Code
Honor Code and CS
Departmental Website
Book Websites: Publisher, Author
Practice Problems (follow the link to the book, then practice exercises)

OS Site Links

FreeBSD

OS & Source: http://www.freebsd.org/
Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

Linux

Basics: http://www.linux.org
Linux Documentation Project: http://tldp.org
Kernel: http://www.kernel.org

Mac OSX/Darwin

Apple's Info: http://www.apple.com/macosx
Source: http://www.opensource.apple.com

Solaris

OS & Source: http://opensolaris.org/os/

Schedule

Items in italic are tentative. When formally assigned, the font will change to bold.

Date Description Readings Work Due
Tuesday,
Sept 4 		Syllabus,
Introduction to Course
Test on Hardware 		N/A N/A

Thursday,
Sept 6

Further discussion of course
Overview of OS 		Chapter 1
PE: 1,4,5,6,8
Computing Curricula 2001-optional

Course Goals &
Course Schedule
(email by 9:00 AM)
Tuesday,
Sept 11 		Operating Systems Structures
Installing operating systems 		Chapter 2
E: 3,8,9
PE: 1,2,4,10
Install OS
Thursday,
Sept 13		 Windows NT Organization Processes Chapter 3
E: 1,2
PE: 2,3 		Complete OS install
Summary of Sites
Tuesday,
Sept 18 		Threads Chapter 4
E: 2,4
PE: 1,2,3,4 		Documentation on install for Your OS

Thursday,
Sept 20 		CPU Scheduling Chapter 5
E: 5
PE: 1,2,3,5 		Organization of OS for Your OS
Start Process Assignment (p121)
Tuesday,
Sept 25 		Synchronization Chapter 6
(skip 6.7)
E: 3,4
PE: 1 		HW: 5.4 p 187
Thursday,
Sept 27 		Deadlock
 Chapter 7
PE: 2,4 		Process/Thread Description for Your OS
Tuesday,
Oct 2 		Review N/A CPU Scheduling Description for Your OS
HW 7.11 p 270
Thursday,
Oct 4 		Quiz N/A N/A
Tuesday,
Oct 9 		Memory Management Chapter 8

Process Assignment
Thursday,
Oct 11 		Finish Memory Management Chapters 8 & 9 HW: 8.3, 8.12 p311
Tuesday,
Oct 16 		Virtual Memory
 Chapter 9 Memory Management Description of Your OS
Thursday,
Oct 18 		File System Interface Chapter 10 Draft Thus Far For Your OS Document
Tuesday,
Oct 23 		Unix File System Chapter 11 Simulator Design for Page Replace Algorithms
Thursday,
Oct 25 		File-System Implementation Chapter 11 N/A
Tuesday
Oct 30 		Review N/A Simulator Program
Thursday,
Nov 1 		Quiz N/A N/A
Tuesday,
Nov 6 		Mass-Storage Structure Chapter 12 File System of Your OS
Thursday,
Nov 8 		I/O Systems Chapter 13 HW 12.2 P489
Tuesday,
Nov 13 		Protections Chapter 14 File System for Your OS Revisited
Thursday,
Nov 15 		Security Chapter 15 N/A
Tuesday,
Nov 20 		Security Chapters 15 N/A
  Thanksgiving Holiday
Tuesday,
Nov 27 		Distributes Systems & Review Chapters 16, 17 & 18 Linux Kernel Recompile
Thursday,
Nov 29 		Quiz N/A N/A
Tuesday,
Dec 4 		Real-Time Systems
Multimedia Systems 		Chapters 19 & 20 Writeup on Your OS
Thursday,
Dec 6 		Review
 N/A N/A
Tuesday,
Dec 11 at 9:00 		Exam