Operating Systems Design

			    Allan Gottlieb

			      Fall 2001


Text is Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, 2nd Edition.

Topic 1: Linkage Editors (Linkers)--Not part of OS kernel

Topic 2: Introduction to Operating Systems

      History	      

      Concepts

      Structure

Topic 3: Process Management

      Processes, Process states and transitions, Threads

      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)

      Process Scheduling

Topic 4: Deadlocks

      Reusable Resources

      Ignore vs Detect (and recover) vs avoid vs prevent

      Banker's algorithms

Topic 5: Memory Management

      Historical systems

      Paging and Demand Paging

      Segmentation

      Segmentation with (Demand) Paging

Topic 6: I/O

      Hardware

      Software

      Disk scheduling

Topic 7: File Systems

      General theory

      Examples

Depending on time remaining, we may cover case studies of

      Unix/Linux

      Windows