COMP 142 -- Introduction to Operating Systems Fall 2005 MW 2:00-3:15, Sitterson 115 Instructor: Kevin Jeffay

Copies of Class Handouts

• Course outline (8/27)
• Course schedule & reading assignments (9/3)
• Program Documentation Guidelines (9/29)
• Midterm Exam Review Sheet (10/13)

Copies of Homework Assignments

• Homework 1 -- UNIX Refresher (Wed 8/27) Due 9/3
• Homework 2 -- Introduction to Processes and Threads (Mon 9/8) Due 9/17
• Homework 3 -- Some written problems on scheduling and processes (9/17) Due 9/29
  
• Homework 4 -- Producer/Consumer Systems in Java (9/29) Due 10/8
• Homework 5 -- Some written problems on mutual exclusion and process synchronization (10/6) Due 10/15
  
• Homework 6 -- Message passing using sockets (10/27) Due 11/6 -- Extended to 11/12.
  
• Homework 7 -- Some written problems on memory management and deadlock (11/12) (Due 11/26)
  
• Homework 8 -- Some written problems on secondary storage, file systems, and protection (11/27) (Due: NEVER! This is an optional HW assignment!)
  

Copies of Lecture Notes

• Lecture 0 -- Administrivia (Wed. 8/27).
• Lecture 1 -- History of OSs & Basic OS Concepts (Wed. 9/3 & Mon 9/8).
  
• Lecture 2 -- Processes (Wed. 9/10).
  
• Lecture 3 -- Process Implementations & Processor Scheduling (Mon. 9/15).
  
• Lecture 4 -- Scheduling Policies (Wed. 9/17).
  
• Lecture 5 -- Process Coordination (Mon. 9/22).
  
• Lecture 6 -- Semaphores (Wed. 9/24).
  
• Lecture 7 -- Higher-Level Synchronization Primitives (Wed. 10/1).
  
• Lecture 8 -- Message Passing (Mon. 10/13).
  
• Lecture 9 -- Memory Management (Wed. 10/15).
  
• Lecture 10 -- Virtual Memory (Mon. 10/20).
  
• Lecture 11 -- Page Replacement Algorithms (Mon. 10/27).
  
• Lecture 12 -- Load Control (Mon. 11/10).
  
• Lecture 13 -- Segmentation & Shared Memory (Wed. 11/12).
  
• Lecture 14 -- Deadlock (Mon. 11/17).
  
• Lecture 15 -- Secondary Storage Management (Mon. 11/24).
  
• Lecture 16 -- Secondary Storage Management II (Mon. 12/3).
  

On-Line Java References

• The infamous (but definitive) Sun Java tutorial.
• Threads and synchronization tutorial.
• Monitor tutorial.
• Java language specification.

What you have to look forward to when you graduate...

• Dilbert du jour.