Announcements

Welcome students! ... to the operating systems course, edition Spring 2013.  I will keep updating this page regularly. If you have questions related to that course feel free to email me. Here is some basic information:

• A brief description of the course at the department web page
• The text book we will use is Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles (7th edition), by William Stallings  (ISBN 013230998X).
• Here is the course syllabus

• Lastname [A .. Gr]     Arunav Borthakur: ab4207 (at) nyu.edu
• Lastname [Gs .. Ma] Jyotsna Karunganni Narayanan: jkn242 (at) nyu.edu
• Lastname [Mb .. W]  Jiakai Zhang:  zhjk (at) nyu.edu
• Lastname [X .. Z]       Kshitij Atul Agrawal: ka1042 (at) nyu.edu>

Mailing List

Sign up for the Mailman mailing list for the course. You can do so by clicking here. Please follow the mailing list etiquette. 

• Use the Reply command to contribute to the current thread, but NOT to start another topic.
• If quoting a previous message,  try to trim off irrelevant parts.
• Use a descriptive Subject: field when starting a new topic.
• Do not use one message to ask two unrelated questions.
• Do NOT make the mistake of sending your completed project assignment to the mailing list!

Lectures

Note: Some of the lectures below may span more than one physical lecture.

Lecture                                                      reading                 

Introduction                                                2.1 -> 2.4

Processes/ Threads I                                                  3.1->3.5

Processes/Threads II and Mutual Exclusion                4.1 -> 4.3 and 5.1 (skim 5.2 -> 5.4)

Deadlocks                                                                 6.1 -> 6.4

Memory Management I                                              7.1, 7.2

Memory Management II                                             8.1 (skim segmentation), 8.2

File Systems I                                                              12.1, 12.4, and 12.5

File Systems II

I/O                                                                               11.1 -> 11.4

Advanced Topics

Labs

Practice Problems

Interesting Links (Geeky stuff about Operating Systems)

If you have an interesting link, please email it to the instructor and it will find its way to this page.