Operating Systems Design

			    Allan Gottlieb

			      Fall 2000


Text is Tanenbaum

Topic 1: Introduction

Topic 2: Process management

      Process states and transitions

      IPC (interprocess communication) and coordination

	  I will leave out some of tanenbaum's treatment as I prefer a
	  more in depth treatment (in v22.2251)

Topic 3: Memory Management

      Historical systems

      Paging

      Segmentation

Topic 4: File Systems

      General theory

      Examples

Topic 5: I/O

      Hardware

      Software

      Disk scheduling

Topic 6: Deadlocks

      Ignore vs Detect (and recover) vs avoid vs prevent

      Banker's algorithms

Depending on time remaining, we may cover case studies of

      Unix

      Dos

      Linux