Operating Systems: Lecture Notes

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Lecture Notes

• Introduction (Wed Jan 28, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Linux Intro (Fri Jan 31, 2003) [ download text ]
• OS and Architecture (Mon Feb 3, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Operating System Structures (Wed Feb 5, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Processes (Mon Feb 10, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Threads (Wed Feb 12, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• CPU Scheduling (Wed Feb 19, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Java Threads (Fri Feb 21, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Lab 2 (Mon Feb 24, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Synchronization: Too Much Milk (Mon Feb 24, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Synchronization: Semaphores (Wed Feb 26, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Scheduling examples (Fri Feb 28, 2003) [ pdf ]
• Synchronization: Readers and writers (Mon March 3, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Exam Review (Wed March 5, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Monitors (Mon March 10, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Remote Procedure Calls (Wed March 12, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Network Structures (Wed March 14, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Deadlocks (Wed March 26, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Deadlock Avoidance (Mon March 31, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• File System Interface (Wed Apr 2, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• File System Implementation (Mon Apr 7, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Memory Management: Contiguous Allocation (Wednesday Apr 9, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Lab 4 discussion (Wed Apr 9, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Paging (Mon Apr 14, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Segmented Paging (Wed Apr 16, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Exam 2 review (Fri Apr 18, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Paging Discussion (Wed Apr 23, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Virtual Memory: Demand Paging (Mon Apr 28, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• LRU Page Replacement and Approximations (Wed Apr 30, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Paging and Segmented Paging Discussion (Wed Apr 30, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• I/O Systems (Wed May 7, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Mass Storage and Disk Scheduling (Fri May 9, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Page Replacement Discussion (Mon May 12, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Final Exam Review (Wed May 14, 2003) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Note: we did not get to Lecture 25 (distributed file systems)