Resources
Here are some links to various resources on the Web that you might find useful. These include links to background material, news sites, and sites where you can learn about specific products.
Please contribute links to sites you may know about so that everyone can benefit from everyone else's knowledge and experience.
Study Aids for Final Examination
Caveat emptor! These are the overheads I brought with me to the lectures. During a lecture, I often added hand-written notes and corrections to slides and drew additional diagrams as necessary. I also said things out loud that do not appear on the slides. Finally, I occasionally skipped topics that I had prepared slides for especially in the final segment as we ran low on time.
I believe that your textbook and your own notes should be a better resource than these slides, but since some students seem to want to see my slides anyway, I am providing them here.
Note: The links are to PDF files.
- Lecture Notes
- Overview and History (35 KB)
- Unix Basics (65 KB)
- Computer System Architecture (75 KB)
- Processes and Threads (71 KB)
- Processor Scheduling (42 KB)
- Synchronization (96 KB)
- Deadlock, Livelock, Starvation & Determinacy (96 KB)
- Memory Management (145 KB)
- Disk and I/O Management (139 KB)
- Unix Basics (65 KB)
- Study Questions
- Sample Final Exam (204 KB)
Notes for Midterm Examination
- A list of topics covered during the first half of the
course (PDF
132 KB).
- Code examples from the lectures on synchronization (
gzippedtarfile6 KB).
- Code examples from the lectures on synchronization (
Cheap/Free Unix Operating Systems for Your PC
- Solaris
- Solaris for Free
- ScholarPAC
Solaris Base
- ScholarPAC Listing
- Freeware for Solaris
- ScholarPAC
- Linux
- Distributions
- Red Hat Linux
- Caldera
- Debian GNU/Linux
- LinuxPPC
Linux for PowerPC Systems
- SuSE
- TurboLinux Home Page
- Yellow Dog Linux (PPC)
- Caldera
- Documentation
- The Linux Documentation Project: Homepage
- The Linux Documentation Project: Linux Documentation Project
- Unifix Linux Documentation, Home Page
- The Linux Documentation Project: Linux Documentation Project
- User Groups
- Vancouver Linux Users Group (VanLUG)
- *BSD
- Distributions
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
- NetBSD
- Sources
- The FreeBSD Mall
- Miscellaneous
- Daemon News : The Premiere BSD E-Zine
- *BSD FAQ Page
- NetBSD/FreeBSD System Administration Tools
- *BSD FAQ Page
- U/Win
- Unix for WINdows
Unix Manual Pages On-Line
- Unix 98
- Single Unix Specification, Version 2
- Solaris
- Solaris Documentation (AnswerBook)
- Linux
- Linux MAN PagesHTML Version
- Linux Manual Pages
C++ and the Standard Template Library (STL)
- C++
- C++ FAQ
- Boost Free C++ Libraries. Some free C++ library code, including pointer management classes that go beyond what you can do with
auto_ptr.- C++ Tip-of-the-Day. Provides useful discussion of C++ dos and don'ts.
- C++ Guru of the Week. Has regular C++ technical questions to keep you on your toes, with answers to previous weeks' question.
- Boost Free C++ Libraries. Some free C++ library code, including pointer management classes that go beyond what you can do with
- Standard Template Library (STL)
- SGI STL Index
- Dinkumware STL Index
- A Modest STL Tutorial
- STLport Enhanced SGI STL
- Dr. Dobb's Journal interview with Alexander Stepanov (key designer of the STL)
- Dinkumware STL Index
Useful Links
- General Computer Science
- Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (North American Mirror)
- Linux/Open Source
- Kernel Traffic (Weekly Summary of the Linux Kernel Mailing List)
- Slashdot
- Freshmeat
- Free Software Foundation
- The Open Source Page
- Georg's Brave GNU World
GNU ProjectFree Software Foundation (FSF)
- The Linux Kernel
- Slashdot
- Unix
- Unix System Administrator's Resources
- GNU Emacs FAQ
- OMU
The "One Man Unix" System
- Unix Guru Universe
- GNU Emacs FAQ
- Windows NT
- Windows NT MagazineNT Software & Hardware How-to Solutions & Reviews
Interesting Links
- Unix
- The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
- the UNofficial GNUstep homepage
- History of UNIX (Ritchie, 1979)
- the UNofficial GNUstep homepage
- Linux
- Performance Computing: Penguin's Brew
- LinuxHQ
- Linux Today
- Linux Weekly News
- LinuxHQ
- Miscellaneous
- PPT: Unix Reconstruction Project
- Caldera Feature
The Linux Standard Base: A Position Paper
- Welcome to the IAT Demo Disk
- Caldera Feature
Free Textbooks
- Raphael A. Finkel
- An Operating Systems Vade Mecum.
Textbook Links
- Silberschatz & Galvin
- Operating Systems Concepts
- Errata (PDF)
- Crowley
- Operating Systems: A Design Oriented Approach
- Stallings
- Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles
- Errata
- Tanenbaum
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum's Home Page
- Nutt
- Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective
- Hahn
- Harley Hahn's Student Guide to UNIX, second edition
- Haviland, Gray, & Salama
- Unix System Programming: A Programmer's Guide to Software Development, second edition
- Stevens
- W. Richard Stevens' Home Page
Writing
- Style Guides
- Jack Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style
- The Curmudgeon's Style Book
- Paul Brians' Common Errors in English
- William Strunk's The Elements of Style (1918)
- Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization
A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors (NASA)
- The Chicago Manual of Style FAQ
- Beyond the MLA Handbook (Harnack/Kleppinger)
- alt.usage.english FAQ
- HyperGrammar
- On-Line English Grammar
- Guide to Grammar and Writing
- Frequently Asked Questions about English, Series 1 and 2
- The Curmudgeon's Style Book
- Dictionaries
- WWWebster DictionarySearch screen
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