CPSC 457 L01 Operating Systems for Engineers (Winter 2001)

Lecture times: MWF 09:00-09:50

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

Teaching Assistant: Pavol Federl [email Pavol]

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

Calendar description: Structure and function of operating systems. Control of independent and cooperating processes, CPU scheduling, deadlock, memory management and data management. Particular attention will be paid to Unix.

• 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.
• The final exam covers Chapters: 5 to 13 not including 6 and 12. From chapters 1-4 and 6, you just need to know the basic concepts. Here is an Old Final

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

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

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

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