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North Carolina StateUniversity.

Dr. Edward Gehringer

Stanford CS240

by Mendel Rosenblum

The University of Southern California
by

Ramesh Govindan

University of California, Santa Barbara University of Florida Berkeley,
prof. Tom Andersen
University of New Mexico

by Charles Crowley

Dartmouth
By Samuel A. Rebelsky
University of Amsterdam University of Alberta  

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

David Spooner

The Chinese University of Hong Kong    

North Carolina State University.

www4.ncsu.edu by Ed Gehringer

CSCECE 501 The course

CSC 379 Homework and Grading


Stanford

CS240A Home Page  -- contains rather limited outlines (ps)

Lecture PDF Format PS Format
Topic 0: Introduction t00_4up.pdf t00_4up.ps
Topic 1: Processes and Synchronization t01_4up.pdf t01_4up.ps
Topic 2: CPU Scheduling t02_4up.pdf t02_4up.ps
Topic 3: Linkers t03_4up.pdf t03_4up.ps
Topic 4: Dynamic Storage Allocation t04_4up.pdf t04_4up.ps
Topic 5: Sharing Main Memory t05_4up.pdf t05_4up.ps
Topic 6: Demand Paging, Thrashing, Working Sets t06_4up.pdf t06_4up.ps
Topic 7: I/O Devices t07_4up.pdf t07_4up.ps
Topic 8: File structure, disk scheduling t08_4up.pdf t08_4up.ps
Topic 9: Directories t09_4up.pdf t09_4up.ps
Topic 10: Network and Communication Protocols t10_4up.pdf t10_4up.ps
Topic 11: Protection and Security t11_4up.pdf t11_4up.ps
Topic 12: Course review t12_4up.pdf t12_4up.ps
Special Topic 0: OS research directions st0_4up.pdf st0_4up.ps
Special Topic 1: UNIX internals st1_4up.pdf st1_4up.ps
Special Topic 2: UNIX today st2_4up.pdf st2_4up.ps
A Fast File System for Unix (Lecture Notes) bsdffs_4up.pdf bsdffs_4up.ps
A Fast File System for Unix (Original Paper) ffs.pdf ffs.ps

Dartmouth CS58, 1995

By Samuel A. Rebelsky

CS58 95F Home Page Course Guide CS58 95F Home Page / Course Guide  Samuel A. Rebelsky

Index of Outlines -- very good

Index of Homework Assignments


Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180-3590

66.411 Operating System Fundamentals  Instructor: David Spooner Spring 1997

Lectures slides in postcript and Powerpoint


The Chinese University of Hong Kong

CSC3150 Course Home Page 9798 - linux based

Notes


University of Florida

Operating Systems Concepts - COP4610 -- University of Florida. Very interesting. Excellent links.

The textbook by Operating Systems A Design-Oriented Approach by Charles Crowley is used.

Operating System resources

CSE 40015045 Operating Systems Concepts -- with very good putline for the course


University of Amsterdam

Description of the courses - A Tanebaum university cources  (University of Amsterdam)


University of New Mexico

Computer Science 481 -- Operating Systems

Charles Crowley Home Page

University of New Mexico Computer Science Department Ph.D. Comprehensive Exams


The University of Southern California.

Modern Operating Systems CS 402   by Ramesh Govindan, 1/8/96. Contains useful notes and assignments

Notes

Jan 10: Operating Systems: Introduction and History
Jan 17, 22: Threads and Processes
Jan 22, 24, 29, 31, Feb 5, 7: Synchronization and Deadlock
Feb 12: CPU Scheduling
Feb 21: Address Spaces, Protection, System Calls
Feb 26, 28: Putting it all together: UNIX program execution
Feb 28, Mar 4, 6: Memory Management: Address Translation, Demand Paging
Mar 18, 20: Input/Output: General principles, UNIX terminal I/O, graphical user interfaces.
Mar 27, Apr 1, 3: File Systems: Disk Layout, Naming, Performance and Reliability
Apr 8, 10: Networking: Networks and Protocols.
Apr 15, 17: Inter-process Communication.
Apr 22, 24: Protection and Security
Apr 29: Review of OS design and design principles.


University of California, Santa Barbara

CMPSC 170 Operating Systems. Taught at University of California, Santa Barbara. Contains an interesting set of Martin Rinard's Handouts (postscript):

Handout 1 - History of Operating Systems
Handout 2 - Processes and Threads
Handout 3 - Thread Creation, Manipulation and Synchronization
Handout 4 - Deadlock
Handout 5 - Implementing Synchronization Operations
Handout 6 - CPU Scheduling
Handout 7 - OS Potpourri
Handout 8 - Introduction to Memory Management
Handout 9 - Introduction to Paging
Handout 10 - Issues in Paging and Virtual Memory
Handout 11 - MIPS TLB Structure
Handout 12 - Introduction to File Systems
Handout 13 - File System Implementation
Handout 14 - Monitors
Handout 15 - Segments
Handout 16 - Disk Scheduling
Handout 17 - Networking
Handout 18 - UDP and TCP

Berkeley
Professor Thomas Anderson

CS 162 - Nachos based. Very interesting noted. Probably the only course that is not look completly dull from the beginning ;-)

Note: lecture notes are formatted two ways: full, for better on-line viewing, and two per page, for cheaper printing.

Lecture 1: Introduction and History. Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 2: Processes, Threads, and Address Spaces Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 3: Implementing Threads Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 4: Independent vs. Cooperating Threads Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 5: Too Much Milk Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 6: Hardware Synchronization Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 7: Semaphores Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 8: Monitors Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 9: Concurrency and Synchronization Wrapup Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 10: Deadlock Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 11: CPU Scheduling Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 12: Protection (added some stuff about Java) Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 13: Address Translation (corrected version) Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 14: Caching and TLBs Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 15: Caching and Demand Paged Virtual Memory Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 16: I/O Devices: Consoles and Disks Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 17: File Systems (two up verison is now available) Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 18: File System Naming Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 19: Transactions Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 20: Networks Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 21: Protocols (two-up now available) Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 22: Remote Procedure Call Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 23: Distributed File Systems Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 24: Parallel programming (skipped)

Lecture 25: The HW&SW Interface (covered earlier)

Lecture 26: Security Full page. 2 up.

Lecture 27: Summary Full page. 2 up.

Sermon 1: Simplicity Full page. 2 up.

Sermon 2: Performance Tuning Full page. 2 up.

Sermon 3: Programming as Craft Full page. 2 up.

Sermon 4: Information = Property Full page. 2 up.

Sermon 5: Stay Broad Full page. 2 up.


Portland State University

CS 533 Concepts of Operating Systems Winter 1998 Home Page  --  by Bruce Irvin. contains interesting outlines of lectures with recommended reading. Base book is SG


University of Chicago

ComSci 230 Uhttpwww.cs.uchicago.educgi-binhypernewsgetodonnellCoursesCS230Spring_1998class7.html. Chicago -- contain recommendation about books !

Assignment #0 introduce yourself to the class


San Diego State University

CS570 Operating Systems  -- Stalling based


Temple

texts

CIS307 Selected Topics 


University of Alberta (Canada)

CMPUT 379 - Operating System Concepts  -- University of Alberta (Canada)

Course Outline
Module Availability
Overview Ready
Processes Ready
Synchronization Ready
Interprocess Communication (IPC) Ready
Scheduling Ready
Deadlocks Ready
Memory Management Ready
Virtual Memory Ready
Real Time Systems Ready
Secondary Storage Ready

NJIT

CIS-332 -- Homework Useful OS Concepts  -- homework


Rutgers

CS-416 Operating Systems Design


P436 Home Page (Fall 1997)   -- from Indiana University


University of Canberra

Jan Newmarch
Operating Systems subject at University of Canberra
 

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