CSCI 432 - Fall 2023
Operating Systems
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| Instructor: | Jeannie Albrecht |
| Email: | jeannie@cs.williams.edu |
| Phone: | x4251 |
| Office: | TCL 305 |
| Office Hours: | M and W 1-2:30, by appt |
| Class Meeting Times: | TTh 9:55-11:10a in Schow 030A |
| Textbook: | Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces,
by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau Full PDF available here (on campus only) |
| TA: | Ye Shu, Lab hours: Sun 8-9:30pm, Mon 8-9:30pm, Wed 7-10pm in Ward lab |
Course Description
This course explores the design and implementation of computer operating systems. Topics include historical aspects of operating systems development, systems programming, process scheduling, synchronization of concurrent processes, virtual machines, memory management and virtual memory, I/O and file systems, system security, os/architecture interaction, and distributed operating systems. The concepts in this course are not limited to any particular operating system or hardware platform. We will discuss examples that are drawn from historically significant and modern operating systems including Unix, Windows, and the various generations of Mac OS.
The objective of this course is threefold: to demystify the interactions between the software you have written in other courses and hardware, to familiarize you with the issues involved in the design and implementation of modern operating systems, and to explain the more general systems principles that are used in the design of all computer systems.
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