Assignments
Class syllabus
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Schedule and Powerpoint Notes
Monday	Wednesday	Friday
	Aug 25 Intro (Chap 1) O.S. Objectives (Section 2.1) O.S. Evolution (Section 2.2)	Aug 27 O.S. Overview (2.3 - 2.7)
Aug 30 Processes (Section 3.1 - 3.2)	Sept 1 Processes (Sections 3.3 - 3.4)	Sept 3 Unix SVR4 Processes (Section 3.5) Threads (Section 4.1)
Sept 6 Holiday	Sept 8 Symmetric Multiprocessing (4.2) Microkernels (4.3) Assignment 1 due	Sept 10 Out of Town
Sept 13 Windows Threads/SMP (4.4) Solaris Threads/SMP (4.5) Linux Threads (4.6)	Sept 15 Concurrency (5.1) Mutual Exclusion – Hardware Support (5.2) Semaphores (5.3)	Sept 17 Monitors (5.4) Message Passing (5.5)
Sept 20 Readers/Writers Problem (5.6) Deadlock (6.1) Assignment 2 due	Sept 22 Unix Concurrency Mechanisms (6.7)	Sept 24 Unix Concurrency Mechanisms (6.7)
Sept 27 Prevention (6.2) Avoidance (6.3) Detection (6.4) Integrated Strategy (6.5)	Sept 29 Dining Philosophers (6.6) Linux Kernel Concurrency Mechanisms (6.8) Solaris Thread Sync (6.9) Windows NT Concurrency (6.10) Assignment 3 due	Oct 1 Memory Management (7.1) Partitioning (7.2a)
Oct 4 Memory Partitioning (7.2b) Paging (7.3) Segmentation (7.4)	Oct 6 Virtual Memory – Hardware and control structures (8.1)	Oct 8 Test 1
Oct 11 Holiday	Oct 13 Virtual Memory - Operating System Software (8.2a)	Oct 15 Operating System Software (8.2b)
Oct 18 Unix and Solaris Memory Management (8.3) Linux Memory Management (8.4) Windows Memory Management (8.5)	Oct 20 Scheduling (9.1) Scheduling Algorithms (9.2a) Assignment 4 due	Oct 22 Scheduling Algorithms (9.2b)
Oct 25 Scheduling Algorithms (9.2c) Unix scheduling (9.3) Response Time (Appendix 9A)	Oct 27 Multiprocessor Scheduling (10.1) Real-Time Scheduling (10.2a)	Oct 29 Real-Time Scheduling (10.2b) Linux Scheduling (10.3) SVR4 Scheduling (10.4) Windows Scheduling (10.5) Assignment 5 due
Nov 1 I/O Devices (11.1) I/O Function Organization (11.2) O.S. Design Issues (11.3)	Nov 3 I/O Buffering (11.4) Disk Scheduling (11.5) RAID (11.6)	Nov 5 Disk Cache (11.7) Unix SVR4 I/O (11.8) Linux I/O (11.9) Windows I/O (11.10)
Nov 8 Overview (12.1) File Organization (12.2)	Nov 10 File Directories (12.3) File Sharing (12.4) Assignment 6 due	Nov 12 Record Blocking (12.5) Secondary Storage Management (12.6)
Nov 15 DOS/Windows 95 File System Unix File Management (12.7) Linux Virtual File System (12.8) Windows File System (12.9) CD-ROM File System	Nov 17 Networking (Chap 13) Client/Server Computing (14.1) Distributed Message Passing (14.2)	Nov 19 Test 2
Nov 22 Remote Procedure Calls (14.3) Clusters (14.4) Windows 2000 Cluster Server (14.5) Sun Cluster (14.6) Beowulf and Linux Clusters (14.7)	Nov 24 Thanksgiving Holiday	Nov 26 Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov 29 Process Migration (15.1) Distributed Global States (15.2)	Dec 1 Distributed Mutual Exclusion (15.3) Distributed Deadlock (15.4)	Dec 3 Security Threats (16.1) Protection (16.2) Intruders (16.3)
Dec 6 Intruders (16.3) Viruses (16.4)	Dec 8 Trusted Systems (16.5) Windows Security (16.6)	Dec 10 Review

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