EECE437 Digital Computer Operating Systems

Text: Silberschatz, A., and P. B. Galvin, Operating Systems Concepts, 4th. Ed., Addison Wesley, 1994.

Computer information: students will need account on EECE department systems

Topics:

• Introduction to Operating Systems - Are they really necessary?
• Structures: Computer System and Operating System - How are machines and OS's organized?
• Operating System Services - What services are provided by an Operating System?
• Processes, Concurrent and Otherwise: What issues are involved in execution of processes in a computer system?
• Scheduling - What issues are involved with selecting processes to run, halt?
• Syncronization - How are activities synchronized?
• Memory Management: Virtual and Real - How to make most of storage?
• File Systems - How do OS's store and retrieve information?
• Deadlocks: How to detect and handle some system hangups?
• Protection: How do we keep private stuff private?
• Design of OS's: How do we put the whole thing together?

Required work: There will be three or four programming assignments plus some ``regular'' homework assignments. The programming assignments are non-trivial; plan to spend time on them.

Additional Reading and References:

• A. S. Tanenbaum: Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1987.
• H. M. Deitel, An Introduction to Operating Systems, Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1984.
• D. Comer, Operating System Design: The XINU Approach, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1984.
• M. J. Bach, The Design of the Unix Operating System, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1986.
• L. Bic & A. C. Shaw, The Logical Design of Operating Systems, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988.