CPSC 457 L04 Principles of Operating Systems (Winter 2001)

Lecture times: Tuesday and Thursday 15:30-16:45

Instructor: Jalal Kawash, MS 680J, 220-4729, kawash@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Office hours: MWF 14:00-16:00, or by appointment.

Teaching Assistant: B11, B12, and B13: Subhendu Chattopadhyay [email Subhendu]

Text: Silberschatz and Galvin. Operating System Concepts, Fifth Edition. Wiley, 1999. (An errata is available)

Calendar description: An introduction to operating systems principles. Performance measurement; concurrent programs; the management of information, memory and processor resources.

• Course Slides (in PDF)

• Supplementary Material

• TA Corner

• Performance (Marks) Unofficial final marks are ready!

Announcements:

• Office Hours during the final examination period will be as follows: Wed. 18th of April 12:00 to 4:00 and Monday the 23rd of April 6:00-8:00.
• Study the following for the final exam (open book):
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8, except Section 8.5.4
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10, as far as middle of page 356 (start of Section 10.3.4)
  Sections 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 from Chapter 11.
  Sections 13.1 and 13.2 from Chapter 13
  You should know the basic concepts in chapters 1 to 4 and chapter 6 (no direct questions will be asked based on these chapters though)
• Old Final

• Assignment 1: Process Coordination, due January 29th. [ps] [pdf]

• Assignment 2: CPU Scheduling, due March 2nd. [ps] [pdf]

• Assignment 3:Memory Allocation, due March 21st.

• Assignment 4:Virtual Memory, due April 12th.