Operating Systems: Lecture Notes

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Lecture Notes

• Introduction (Thu Sept 7, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• OS and Architecture (Tue Sept 12, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Operating System Structures (Thu Sept 14, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Processes (Tue Sept 19, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Threads (Thu Sept 21, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• CPU Scheduling (Tue Sept 26, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Synchronization: Too Much Milk (Thu Sept 28, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Synchronization: Semaphores (Tue Oct 3, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Synchronization: Readers and writers (Thu Oct 5, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Monitors (Tue Oct 10, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Deadlocks (Thu Oct 12, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Deadlock Avoidance, Exam 1 Review (Tue Oct 17, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Memory Management: Contiguous Allocation (Thu Oct 19, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Paging (Thu Oct 26, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Lecture 15 uses slides from Lecture 14 (Paging)
• Segmented Paging (Tue Nov 07, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Virtual Memory: Demand Paging (Thu Nov 9, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• LRU Page Replacement and Approximations (Tue Nov 14, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• File System Interface (Thu Nov 16, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• File System Implementation (Thu Nov 21, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• I/O Systems (Wed Nov 29, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Mass Storage and Disk Scheduling (Thu Nov 30, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Network Structures (Tue Dec 5, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Remote Procedure Calls (Wed Dec 6, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Distributed File Systems (Thu Dec 7, 2000) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Exam Review [ download postscript | pdf ]