Operating Systems (Winter 2012)

Dr. Melanie Rieback // R4.33, ext 87634 // melanie@cs.vu.nl

Schedule

This course is offered in an intensified form: there will be two classes every week, which implies it is imperative to study the material during the period it is taught.

The first class is on:
Tuesday, 7 February 15.30-17.15.

Classes are in:
M6.07 on Tuesdays 15.30-17.15
M6.23 on Thursdays 13.30-15.15

The examination is on:
Monday 26 March, 15.15-18.00

The re-examination is on:
Monday 11 June, 18.30-21.15

Slides can be found here. Chapters and sections refer to:

A.S. Tanenbaum, A.S. Woodhull. Operating Systems, Design and Implementation. 3rd Edition, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 2006

You are strongly advised to install MINIX and play with it. Using other UNIX-alikes would also be OK, as long as you can act as superuser to do the nifty things.

Exams

There are no longer any midterm exams. The final exams are in March and June

In-class quizzes will be given on an occasional basis.
These quizzes can collectively add a maximum of 2 points of extra credit to your exam score.
Therefore, you are strongly advised to keep up with the assigned material, and to attend class.
Please note that the extra credit from the quizzes applies to the first exam ONLY. (These points are NOT applied to the make-up exam!)

Previous Exams

There is a (not yet) extensive set of previous exams here, including solutions.

The results of the last exam (June 2007) can be found here (available only to VU and Windesheim students).

Detailed schedule

class	date	day	topic	material
1	7 Feb	Tue	General introduction	Sec. 1-1.4
2	9 Feb	Thu	Processes: Intro + IPC	Sec. 1.5-2.2
3	14 Feb	Tue	Processes: IPC/Scheduling	Sec. 2.3-2.4
4	16 Feb	Thu	Processes: MINIX implementation	Sec. 2.5-2.6
5	21 Feb	Tue	Processes: MINIX implementation	Sec. 2.6
6	23 Feb	Thu	Processes: Wrap up	Sec. 2.7-2.9
7	28 Feb	Tue	Input/Output: Intro + Deadlock	Sec. 3-3.3
8	1 Mar	Thu	Input/Output: Block Devices	Sec. 3.4-3.5
9	6 Mar	Tue	Input/Output: Char Devices + Wrap up	Sec. 3.6-3.9
10	8 Mar	Thu	Memory Management: Intro	Sec. 4-4.3
11	13 Mar	Tue	Memory Management: Paging/Segmentation	Sec. 4.4-4.7
12	15 Mar	Thu	Memory Management: MM in Minix	Sec. 4.8-4.9
13	20 Mar	Tue	File Systems: Intro + Security	Sec. 5-5.5
14	22 Mar	Thu	File Systems in MINIX: Arch + Implementation	Sec. 5.6-5.8
	26 Mar	Mon	Exam


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