Operating Systems: Lecture Notes

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Lecture Notes

• Introduction (Thu Sept 6, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• OS and Architecture (Thu Sept 13, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Operating System Structures (Tue Sept 18, 2001 and the Discussion Section) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Processes (Tue Sept 18, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Threads (Tue Sept 20, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• CPU Scheduling (Thu Sept 25, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf | oneup format]
• Synchronization: Too Much Milk (Thu Sept 27, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Synchronization: Semaphores (Tue Oct 2, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Synchronization: Readers and writers (Thu Oct 4, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Monitors (Tue Oct 9, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Deadlocks (Thu Oct 11, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Deadlock aviodance (Tue Oct 16, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Memory Management: Contiguous Allocation (Thu Oct 18, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Paging (Tue Oct 23, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Segmented Paging (Thu Oct 25, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Virtual Memory: Demand Paging (Tue Oct30, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• LRU Page Replacement and Approximations (Tue Nov 1, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• File System Interface (Tue Nov 6, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• File System Implementation (Tue Nov 12, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• I/O Systems (Thu Nov 15, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Mass Storage and Disk Scheduling (Tue Nov 20, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Network Structures (Tue Nov 27, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Remote Procedure Calls (Thu Nov 29, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Distributed File Systems (Thu Dec 6, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]
• Protection (Tue Dec 11, 2001) [ download postscript | pdf ]