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OPERATING SYSTEMS I

CMPT-300 (1121 - Spring 2012)

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General Information

Instructor: Steven Pearce (TASC-1, Room 9225)
Office Hours: One hour before lectures in my office.
Phone: 2-4444
E-mail: stevenp AT sfu.ca - Emergencies Only

TA: Ankit Gupta
Office Hours: M, 13:00-14:00hrs in ASB 9839_TA_3 (in CISL)
Email: aga53@sfu.ca

Class E-mail: cmpt-300-d1@sfu.ca

Text: "Modern Operating Systems," by Tanenbaum, 3rd Ed.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
BC High School Math 12. A minimum grade of C is required in all prerequisite courses.

Grading:

Homework (15%) - Bi Weekly (announced in class)
Midterm Examination (35%) - Thursday, February 23rd (1 hr).
Final Examination (50%) - TBA (2 hrs).

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Schedule of Lectures

Essentially, most of the first six chapters of your Text.

GENERAL TOPICS:

History and evolution of OS.
Tasking and Processes
Interprocess Communication, Concurrency Control and Resource Allocation
Scheduling and Dispatch
Physical and Virtual Memory
File Systems
Security

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Detailed Syllabus:

WEEKS	TOPIC	READINGS
1 (week of January 9th)	Introduction.	1.1-1.7, 10.1, 11.1
2	Processes and Threads	2.1, 2.2, 10.3, 11.4
3	Scheduling, Concurrency	2.4, 2.3
4	Race conditions, Critical regions, Mutual exclusion	2.3
5	...Continued
6	READING BREAK
7	MIDTERM, Sleep and wake-up, Semaphores, Mutexes, Monitors, etc.	2.3
8	Practical examples	2.5
9	Deadlock	6.1-6.7
10	...Continued
11	I/O	5.1-5.7
12	File Management	4.1-4.3, 4.5, 10.6
13	Multiprogramming, Swapping, Virtual memory, Paging	3.1-3.4
13.1	...Continued, Review

Revised: January, 2012