COSC 58---Representative Syllabus


Project

    The instructor believes that the best way to learn about systems
    is to build them: to connect the basic building blocks with the
    high-level behavior, informed throughout by the basic design
    principles.

    In "Operating Systems," students do that by using the Yalnix
    framework to build a complete operating system.

Lectures:

    Introduction

    OS Structure

    Processes

    Process Implementation

    Processes and Race Conditions

    Locks, Threads

    Synchronization

    Synchronization Strategy

    Memory Management: Evolution

    Memory Management: Address Space Structures

    Memory Management: Contemporary Issues

    Memory Management: Page Tables and Paging

    Memory Management: Wrap-up

    IO

    Systems Sense 

    Deadlock, Part 1

    Deadlock, Part 2

    Scheduling: Problems and Metrics

    Scheduling: Everything Else

    Files Systems: Operations

    File Systems: Organization

    File Systems: Disks

    Distributed File Systems (p1)

    Distributed File Systems (p2)

    Guest Lecture by Prof. Doug McIlroy (the first user of the first Unix!)

    Security: Overview, Protection

    Security: Crypto, Authentication

    Security: Trouble and Hope

    Distributed Computing

    How the Yalnix Support Software Works

    Course Wrap-up