OPERATING SYSTEMS

 CS 5/43201, 2006 SPRING, Department of Math and Computer Science, Kent State University

• Tentative Class Schedule & Lecture Notes
• Assignments and Exams
• Projects Page

Professor: Dr. Javed I. Khan

javed@kent.edu
MSB 217, 330-672-9038
Office hours = contact-sheet

You can walk in anytime.

TA:

Spring 2006: Xiao Zou Email: xzou1 @ kent.edu
Office Hour: 9:00am - 12:00 am Wednesday, Room 252 MCS

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Meeting Time:

Text Book:

• Operating System Concepts, 2002, 6th/ 7th edition, Silberschatz and Galvin.

Test Operating System:

Related Information Sites:

• "An Introduction to Programming with Threads", Andrew Birrell, DEC .
• "X UNIX Implemenation", Ken Thompson, AT&T, 1978.
• "X A Fast File System for UNIX", McKusick, Joy, Leffler, Fabry, UC Berkeley, 1985.
• ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems publications and conferences.
• Windows NT
• DCE, Distributed Computing Env, IBM

Nachos Information:

• Overview paper, UC Berkeley (explains objectives behind the assignments)
• "A Road Map Through Nachos", Thomas Narten, Duke Univ (explains system calls)
• Guide to Reading the Nachos Code, O'Donnell, U Chicago
• (explains bootstapping, thread dispatching, address translation, system
• call handling, and other exception handling mechanisms)
• Nachos Home Page, UC Berkeley

"A Quick Introduction to C++", Christopher, UC Berkeley