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MS-300
Operating Systems

Tentative Class Schedule

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Week Period Topics Assignment Due
#1 Lecture 1 Introduction
Prerequisite review		  
Lecture 2 History of operating systems, OS design goals Read text, Chapter 1
Lecture 3 OS History (cont.) Quiz #1
#2 Lecture 1 Computing machine models (Von Neumann arch.)  Read text, Chapter 2
Lecture 2 Computer architecture: I/O, interrupts, memory structure Read text, Chapter 3
Lecture 3 Computer architecture: memory mapping, secondary storage, OS support  Quiz #2
#3 Lecture 1 Processes: definition, state, context switching, dispatching Read text, Chapter 4
Lecture 2 Catch up  
Lecture 3 Interprocess communication Quiz #3
#4 Lecture 1 CPU scheduling (policies)  Read text, Chapter 5
Lecture 2 CPU scheduling (algorithms)  
Lecture 3 Catch up - Review  Quiz #4
#5 Lecture 1 Scheduling algorithms
(Also see Mars Pathfinder priority inversion site)		  Read text, Chapter 6
Lecture 2 Threads
Process management		  
Lecture 3 Midterm Exam  
#6 Lecture 1 Process synchronization  Read text, Chapter 7
Lecture 2 Critical Sections (Bakery Algorithm)  
Lecture 3 Semaphores  Quiz #5
#7 Lecture 1 Producer/Consumer Problem Read text, Chapter 8
Lecture 2 Monitors and condition variables  
Lecture 3 Dining Philosophers Problem Quiz #6
#8 Lecture 1 Memory Management  Read text, Chapter 9
Lecture 2 Virtual memory, demand paging, page faults  
Lecture 3 Paging algorithms  Quiz #7
#9 Lecture 1 Paging algorithms (cont.)  Read text, Chapter 10
Lecture 2 File System concepts  Read text, Chapter 11
Lecture 3 File System Implementation Quiz #8
#10 Lecture 1 I/O Subsystems Read text, Chapter 12
Lecture 2 File System and Resource Protection  Read text, Chapter 18
Lecture 3 Security and Encryption  Read text, Chapter 19
#11 Exam week Final exam  

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