Com Sci 230/330
Operating Systems

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[1 June] There is no lecture planned for Wednesday 3 June. An extra hour to study for something else.

[29 May] Please look at the description and schedule for the final interviews. Choose a time slot, and send me e-mail. I will process choices FIFO.

Office: Ryerson 165B
Office hours: by appointment. Contact me by email (odonnell@cs.uchicago.edu), phone at the office (773-702-1269), or phone at home (847-835-1837) between 9:30 and 5:30 on days that I work at home. You may drop in to the office any time, but you may find me out or busy if you haven't confirmed an appointment. Check my personal schedule before proposing an appointment.

Last modified: Mon Feb 26 11:31:51 CST 2001

Prerequisites: Com Sci 220 and Com Sci 222.
Description: This course covers basic concepts of operating systems. Among the topics discussed are the notion of a process, interprocess communication and synchronization, main memory allocation, segmentation, paging, virtual memory linking and loading, scheduling, file systems, and security and privacy. This course is currently being taught using the NACHOS simulated operating system, written in C++. Students will extend and modify NACHOS in three or four large programming projects.
Required Text: Operating Sytem Concepts, 5th edition, by Abraham Silberschatz and Peter B. Galvin, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1 November 1997, ISBN 0-20159-113-8.

Lecture Notes, etc., from CS 162 at Berkeley

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