Operating Systems (Regular and Honors)

V22.0202-001 and -002, Fall 2006

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General Course Information

Professor Chee Yap	Room: WWH 416, Tel: 998-3115, email: yap "at" cs.nyu.edu
Lectures	Mon and Wed 2:00-3:15, WWH 102
Office Hours	Mon 4-5, and by appointment
Homework	No late homework. With a valid excuse, we have the option of imposing a penalty.
Grade	Course Grade is curved: Written Homework (20%), Programming Homework/Project (35%), Midterm (15%), Final (30%).
Exams	Midterm is held in class on week of Oct 16.
NYU Bboard	Class discussions, email lists, announcements, check grades, etc. Use your NYU NetID to login, then click our class link
Academic Integrity	Department statement -- please read this!

One-time Action

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Course Description

The prerequisite for this course is Computer Systems Organization (V22.0201).
The informal name for this course is "Operating Systems". Click here for a rough outline of the course syllabus.

Textbook

Operating System Concepts with Java (7th Edition) by A.Silberschatz, P.Baer Galvin, G.Gagne. Wiley Publishers 2004. ISBN: 0-471-69466-5. Older edition is not acceptable.

Some Useful Links

Feel free to suggest links.
If you need to learn a keyboard-based editor (i.e., not exclusively WYSIWYG), I highly recommend the freely available GVIM (or VIM). Here is my page with Vi Information
Link to webpage of Textbook: www.os-book.com [Errata List]
DOS to UNIX file converter ( Another Version)
Linux manpage Viewer
POSIX threads from Dave Marshall. In particular, I have made a local copy of his information compiling and linking threaded programs on different platforms.