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

Last modified: Tue Jan 27 12:14:43 EST 1998