Mon, Wed 4:30-5:50, ARC 105

Instructor: Prof.  Badri Nath 

Room 320, Core Building Ph: 732-445-2082 

e-mail:badri@cs.rutgers.edu 

Home Page: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~badri 

Course home page: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~badri/416.html 

Office Hours: Wed 11 to 1 or by appointment

TA Name: Christian Borcea
         Office Hours: TBA, Phone 445-2002, Room Hill 379
         e-mail: borcea@paul.rutgers.edu

Credits 4

Objective: To convey a thorough understanding of the basics of an operating 
system by studying techniques and algorithms for providing services in a 
computer system, and to understand the implementation aspects of popular operating
systems by examining case studies

Prerequisites:  Computer Architecture, Programming Languages

Outline: Operating System Structure. Computer organization. Process management,
 threads, concurrency and synchronization. Memory management, virtual memory.
 Scheduling. I/O management. File systems, implementation and management. 
Case studies of UNIX, LINUX, and Windows-NT.

Expected work: Five homeworks 35% quizzes 5%
               Mid term exam (closed book) 25%
               Final exam (closed book) 35%

Text: Operating Systems (third edition) by William Stallings, Prentice Hall

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