CSC 453
Operating Systems
This course meets from 9:25 - 10:40 AM TTh in Business 33. We'll use the
textbook Operating
System Concepts, by Silberschatz and Galvin. This book, in earlier
editions, has become probably the most popular textbook for undergraduate
operating-systems courses. The new fifth edition, at almost 900 pages,
includes more information than we can possibly cover in one semester,
but I recommend that you keep it after the course is over for reference
purposes.
The
syllabus
is available in LaTeX,
DVI,
Postscript, and
HTML.
A schedule of lectures tells
what I plan to talk about, and what I expect you to have read, by each
class meeting.
I taught this course in Spring 1996 as well,
and a few handouts are still available from that class.
Homework assignments
- Homework 1 assigned 19 Feb, due 3 Mar.
- Choose ten of the following twenty problems in the textbook:
2.1, 2.3 -- 2.5 (for 2.5, I want reasons, not just yes/no answers)
4.2 -- 4.8
5.2 -- 5.10
- Homework 2 assigned 9 April, due 23 April
- Choose six of the following eleven problems, at least two from each
chapter:
8.5, 8.6, 8.8
9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 9.5, 9.7, 9.9, 9.11, 9.18
Reading assignments
By Thursday, April 16, you should have read chapters 1-11 and 15-16
in the textbook.
Last modified:
Thu Apr 16 09:12:07 EDT 1998
Stephen Bloch / sbloch@boethius.adelphi.edu