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      OPERATING SYSTEMS I
                                                                        
      CMPT-300 (Fall 2017)
                                                                        
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 _______________________________________________________________________________ General Information
                                                                        
                             Instructor: Steven Pearce (TASC-1, Room 
 9225)

                             Office Hours: One hour BEFORE class on Friday and by appointment on other days.

                             Phone: 2-4444 

                             E-mail: stevenp AT sfu.ca - Emergencies
   Only

      TA: Nastaran Hajinazar 

      Office Hours:  Mondays 10 AM to 11 AM, room ASB9814 in CSIL

Class E-mail: cmpt-300-d2@sfu.ca 

      Text: Modern Operating Systems, Tanenbaum, 3rd Ed. (the 4th Ed. is in the bookstore but you can use older editions)

      Prerequisites/Corequisites: 

                       BC High School Math 12. A minimum grade of C is required 
   in  all   prerequisite      courses. 

      Grading: 

      Homework
(20%)               
- Bi Weekly (announced in class) 

                       Midterm Examination (30%)  - Friday, October 20th (50 minutes).

Final Examination (50%)       - TBA (2 hrs).
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       Schedule of Lectures
                        Essentially, most of the first six chapters of 
your textbook.          

                           GENERAL TOPICS:

      History and evolution of OS.

                     Tasking and Processes

                     Interprocess Communication, Concurrency Control and
Resource     Allocation

                     Scheduling and Dispatch

                     Physical and Virtual Memory

                     File Systems

                     Security

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        Tentative Syllabus (see Admin PPT for more detail):

      WEEKS

                              TOPIC

                              READINGS

1 
                             
                Introduction 
   (H/W review and brief history).Chapter 1

2

                             Processes
      and   ThreadsChapter 2
3

                                                                       ...continued

                              "

4

                             Concurrency, 
   Race conditions,      Critical regions, Mutual exclusion

                   "

5

                            Scheduling

                            "

6

                                                                       ... continued

                            "

7

                             MIDTERM,
        
               "

8

                                                                       Memory

                   Chapter
 3

8

                             Memory

                              "

9

                                                                       ...Continued"

10

                                                                       File
 Management

                   Chapter
 4

11

                                                                       ...
 Continued

                   "

12

                             I/O

                   Chapter
 6
13

                   ... continued

                   "

Last
   Lecture

                   Deadlock
 and ReviewChapter
 6

                  Revised: September 6, 2017