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Schedule

This class meets every Tuesday and Thursday from 9:25 to 10:40 AM, except on University holidays or if I cancel class. All dates in the following schedule are tentative, except those fixed by the University; if some topic listed here as taking one lecture in fact takes two lectures to cover adequately, or vice versa, the schedule will shift.

I expect you to have read the reading assignments (usually one chapter per lecture) before the lecture that deals with that topic; this way I can concentrate my time on answering questions and clarifying subtle or difficult points in the textbook, rather than on reading the textbook to you, which will bore both of us. Please read ahead!

Date(s) Assignment Reading Lecture Subject
27 Jan Administrivia, "what is this course about?"
29 Jan 1 History of Operating Systems
3 Feb 2 Overview of OS concepts
5 Feb 3 More of the same
6 Feb Last day to add courses
10 Feb 4 Processes
12 Feb Inter-process Communication
17 Feb 5 CPU scheduling
19 Feb 6 Process synchronization
20 Feb Last day to drop courses
24 Feb Process synchronization, continued
26 Feb 7 Deadlocks and ...
3 Mar How Not to Have Them
5 Mar catch up & review for midterm
10 Mar Midterm Exam
12 Mar Discuss midterm exam
16-22 Mar Spring break -- no classes
24 Mar 8 Memory Management
26 Mar Paging and Segmentation
31 Mar 9 Virtual Memory
2 Apr Implementing Virtual Memory
3 Apr Last day to withdraw from classes
7 Apr 10 What is a file?
9 Apr 11 Implementing Files
14 Apr 12 I/O devices and drivers
16 Apr 13 Secondary storage
21 Apr 15 Networking
23 Apr 16 Distributed Systems
28 Apr 17 Distributed File Systems
30 Apr Examples of Distributed File Systems
5 May 19 or 20 Protection & Security
7 May catch up and review for final
14 May 10:30-12:30, Final Exam


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Stephen Bloch