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CS134a, Fall 2004
Introduction to operating systems

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Overview

This term is devoted to operating systems principles, including the following topics: Monolithic and micro-kernels, virtual machines. Naming, memory management, segmentation, paging, and virtual memory. Filesystems and I/O. Threads, processes, scheduling, locks, semaphores, and mutual exclusion. Security policies, access-control, certificate-passing, and language-based security.

Syllabus

Week Lecture dates Main topics to be covered
1 September 27
September 29
October 1		 Introduction [handouts]
Architecture [handouts]
Processes [handouts]
2 October 4
October 6
October 8		 Processes and synchronization [handouts]
Semaphores [handouts]
No class
3 October 11
October 13
October 15		 Monitors [handouts]
Deadlock [handouts]
Deadlock [handouts]
4 October 18
October 20
October 22		 Scheduling [handouts]
Scheduling [handouts]
Real-time scheduling [handouts] 
5 October 25
October 27
October 29		 Memory management [handouts]
Virtual memory [handouts]
Replacement policies [handouts] 
6 November 1
November 3
November 5		 Uniform shared memory [handouts]
Distributed shared memory [handouts]
Distributed shared memory [handouts]
7 November 8
November 10
November 12		 Sharing [handouts]
Microkernels [handouts]
Distributed systems [handouts] 
8 November 15
November 17
November 19		 RPC [handouts]
RPC [handouts]
Distributed mutual exclusion [handouts]
9 November 22
November 24
 Commit protocols [handouts]
No class
10 November 29
December 1
December 3		 Filesystems [handouts]
Physical organization [handouts]
Indexing [handouts]
11 December 6
December 8
December 10


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