OPERATING SYSTEMS

CS 5/43201, 2010 SPRING, Department of Math and Computer Science, Kent State University

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Professor: Dr. Javed I. Khan

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TA:

Spring 2010: Omar Tahboub Email: otahboub @ kent.edu
Office Hour: 9:00am - 12:00 am Wednesday, Room 255 MCS

Meeting Time:

12:30- 1: 45 pm TR, ROOM#121

Text Book:

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

Test Operating System:

The course projects will be based on "Nachos". There will be two programming projects.

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++"

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