CS 3733 Operating Systems Daily Topics Listed here are the topics covered in each class.

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1. Tuesday, August 25, 1998

Introductory Lecture, what is an OS?

2. Thursday, August 27, 1998

Multiprogramming, Time Sharing, Distributed Systems, makeargv, safe functions.

3. Tuesday, September 1, 1998

Storage and linkage classes
Processes

4. Thursday, September 3, 1998

Process Scheduling (CPU Scheduling) from SG Chapter 5
Note: This is a change in topics from what was announced on Tuesday

5. Tuesday, September 8, 1998

Process scheduling continued: SJF, round robin, priorities, preemptive scheduling, multilevel queues

6. Thursday, September 10, 1998

The process scheduling simulator and Assignment 2

7. Tuesday, September 15, 1998

Process scheduling continued: multilevel feedback queues
Scheduling under VMS, NT, UNIX, and Linux

8. Thursday, September 17, 1998

PUP:
Chapter 2: fork
Chapter 3: files
hard links
symbolic links

9. Tuesday, September 22, 1998

Discussion of Assignment 1

10. Thursday, September 24, 1998

PUP Chapter 3 (continued)
Symbolic links
File descriptors and pointers
Redirection and pipes

11. Tuesday, September 29, 1998

FIFOs
PUP Chapter 4

12. Thursday, October 1, 1998

PUP Chapter 4 (completed)

13. Tuesday, October 6, 1998

S&G Chapter 6: Process Synchronization

14. Thursday, October 8, 1998

Midterm review
Discussion of assignment 2
Peterson's solution to the critical section problem

15. Tuesday, October 13, 1998

More about assignment 2
Answered questions related to the exam

16. Thursday, October 15, 1998

Midterm Exam

17. Tuesday, October 20, 1998

Synchronization
test-and-set and swap
semaphores

18. Thursday, October 22, 1998

Monitors

19. Tuesday, October 27, 1998

Signals: PUP Chapter 5
Up to sigsuspend

20. Thursday, October 29, 1998

Signals: continued

21. Tuesday, November 3, 1998

Communication: PUP Chapter 12
UICI

22. Thursday, November 5, 1998

UICI implementation
Sockets

23. Tuesday, November 10, 1998

Memory Management: SG Chapter 8
Relocatable and nonrelocatable references
dynamic loading
dynamic linking
logical and physical addresses
fixed size partitions
variable size partitions
paging (introduction)

24. Thursday, November 12, 1998

Paging (continued)

25. Tuesday, November 17, 1998

Evaluations
Virtual Memory

26. Thursday, November 19, 1998

Page Replacement

27. Tuesday, November 24, 1998

Guest Lecture: Security

28. Tuesday, December 1, 1998

Final Exam Review and project checkoff

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