Recommended Text: Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne, "Operating
System Concepts", John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2002 (6th Edition), or the
recent 2003 Windows XP updated version.
NOTE: The course notes will be primarily based on the above
textbook, but other good OS books, such as those by Stallings and
Tanenbaum should be good enough to accompany this course.
This course covers the fundamental concepts of operating systems.
Topics including file systems, synchronization, deadlocks, and memory
management will be discussed. A good understanding of C or C++ is
required (NOTE: The Java programming language may be used for some
projects, where appropriate).
Advanced topics including those based on distributed computing
will be discussed, time permitting. Additionally, case studies based on
a real-world operating system will be covered, where appropriate,
throughout the course.
Socket programming and abstractions such as remote procedure
calls may be required for some of the projects.
Further Information:
The concept of "threads" will feature as part of this course.
Some useful documentation on threads includes:
