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Operating Systems, 5p

News

  • 2004-05-04 Remember to sign up for the re-exam, last date is tomorrow!
  • 2004-03-23 The next exam will be May 19.
  • 2004-03-12 The lecture will start at 9.15 tomorrow, Saturday.
  • 2004-03-11 The exam will be March 20, time: 13-18, in Postscriptum 2.
  • 2004-02-18 I sent out an e-mail today to the course list, if you didn't receive this e-mail, please let me know and I'll add you to the list!
  • 2004-02-18 Here you may find a study guide for the last section of the course. Also remember to use the Course Outline for your studies! Good Luck!
  • 2004-02-14 The third meeting was great! Thank you all who were participating. I got the question about office hours, just drop by, I'm here most of the time. Or send me an e-mail!! Anna Sandström
  • 2004-01-22 Note that the third meeting has changed dates. It will take place on march 12-13.
  • 2004-01-14 The course starts next week, on friday. Remember to bring your book and to read some of the chapters suggested in the Welcome letter. See below.
  • 2003-12-09 This page was was created.

Registration

To be able to attend the course you need to register for the course. Registration will take place on Friday, January 23, at 13.00 in room 1245, Polacksbacken. Registration is mandatory. If you are accepted with comment 10, you should bring some evidence which verify that you have the required knowledge.

Litterature

A. Silberschatz & P.B. Galvin: Operating System Concepts, Sixth Edition, Addison-Wesley 2001.

Den som har svårt för engelska kan som komplement till kurslitteraturen rekommenderas
Hans Flacks föreläsningsanteckningar i Datorsystem.

Teachers

Lectures and exam:

Anna Sandström, Room 1219, Ph#: 018-471 7595,
e-mail: Anna.Sandstrom@it.uu.se.

Labs and labinstructions:

Olga Grinchtein, Room 1440, Ph#: 018-471 5777,
e-mail: Olga.Grinchtein@it.uu.se.

Examination

The exam will be on Saturday March 20 (??-??), at ???.
If you fail the exam you can try again in the middle of April or May 19.

Cheating

Cheating on the labs or on the exam is not accepted. Don't cheat!

Lecture plan

Date Time Room Contents Chapters
23/1 13.15-18 1245 Registration, introduction, Process Management: processes, scheduling, 1-6
23/1 18-20 1245 Lab 1: Process Management
24/1 9.15-12 1245 Process Synchronization 7
24/1 12-16 1515 Lab 1: Process Management
13/2 13.15-18 1245 Process Synchronization, deadlocks, Storage Management: Memory Management, Paging and Segmentation 7-9
13/2 18-20 1245 Lab 2: Process Communication
14/2 9.15-12 1245 Paging and Segmentation, (intro to virtual memory) 9
14/2 12-16 1515 Lab 2: Process Communication
12/3 13.15-19 1245 Virtual Memory, Information Handling: File-System Interface, I/O-systems 10
12/3 19-20 1245 Lab 3: UNIX File System
13/3 9.15-12 1245 Information Handling: File-System Interface, I/O-systems 11-13
13/3 12-16 1515 Lab 3: UNIX File System
March 20 13-18 Postscriptum 2 Exam
April ?? ??-?? Re-exam
May 19 ??-?? Re-exam

Reading Directions

Note the errata for the book.

Chapter Comment
1-3 Background and motivation to OS - good for understanding!
4-8 Process Management (read)
9-11 Storage Management (read)
12-14 (skim)
15-17 (skip) These concepts are covered in these courses: Datakommunikation resp. Distribuerade system.
18 Protection (read)
19 Security (skim)
20 - 22 UNIX, Linux, Windows NT: (skim) Interesting!
23 Historical Perspective: (skip) Interesting!

Updated  2004-05-04 08:00:16 by Anna Sandström.