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9/4/97	What is an Operating System? Syllabus & Introduction Project #1 - Installing Minix
9/9/97	What Do We Need To Run An OS? Review of Computer Organization The Intel 386/486 architecture Disk drive & peripheral structure I/O & Interrupt hardware User & kernel CPU modes
9/11/97	How Does Your OS Get Started? Bootstrapping an OS Disk Partitions System BIOS Vectored Interrupts
9/16/97	What Happens When You Log On? System Initialization Structure Of Minix
9/18/97	What Is A Process? User Authentication Process States & Interrupts Minix Message Passing
9/23/97	Where Do New Processes Come From? Looking inside a shell The Fork and Exec system calls Project #2: Minix Gets A New Scheduler
9/25/97	How are Processes Represented? Proc Structures Process Table Ready and Blocked Queues
9/30/97	Which Process Gets To Run Next? Scheduling Issues Scheduling Algorithms
10/2/97	How Do You Evaluate A Scheduler? Scheduling Algorithm Examples Scheduler Evaluation Measures Project #2: Design Review Document Due
10/7/97	How Do User Processes Talk To Each Other? An interesting problem... IPC mechanisms Examples of Minix pipes
10/9/97	More Minix Pipes The Producer / Consumer Problem Exam #1 Handed Out
10/14/97	No Classs Exam #1 Due
10/16/97	MidTerm Pause - No Class
10/21/97	What Is Memory Allocation? The memory heirarchy Memory and mono/multi programming Project #2 due Project #3 Assigned
10/23/97	How Does The OS Find Free Memory? Tracking free memory Memory allocation schemes Minix memory allocation
10/28/97	What Is Virtual Memory? Paging systems Page tables Research Paper Topic / Abstract due
10/30/97	What Are The Problems With Paging? Multi-Level page tables Translation lookaside buffers Inverted page tables
11/4/97	What Are The Problems With Paging? (More) Multi-Level page tables Translation lookaside buffers Inverted page tables Proj #3 Design Review Document Due.
11/6/97	Which Page Gets Swapped? Page replacement algorithms Design issues
11/11/97	What Is A File System? Overview of File Systems Research Paper Outline & References due
11/13/97	How Are Files and Directories Stored? File allocation schemes Directory implementation FAT's and I-Nodes
11/18/97	How Does the Unix File System Work? Free space management The basic Unix file system Project #3 due - Rough Draft
11/20/97	How Can The Unix File System Be Improved? BSD Unix Berkley Fast File System Project #3 - Revised
11/25/97	How Does The Minix File System Work? Minix File System Overview Research Paper Rough Draft due
11/27/97	Thanksgiving Break - No Class
12/2/97	What are Threads? Introduction to threads Race Conditions Project #4 assigned
12/4/97	How Do You Prevent Race Conditions? Critical Regions Busy Waiting Semaphores
12/9/97	Classical IPC Problems Dining Philosophers Sleeping Barber
12/11/97	Research Paper Presentations Operating Systems for Parallel Computers Security Issues and the Java Programming Language Operating System Security: Problems & Solutions Research Paper Final Draft Due Takehome Exam #2 Handed out
12/21/97	Final Exam Date Takehome Exam #2 Due Project #4 Due