CS 50300 - Operating Systems

Basic principles of operating systems: addressing modes, indexing, relative addressing, indirect addressing, stack maintenance; implementation of multitask systems; control and coordination of tasks, deadlocks, synchronization, mutual exclusion; storage management, segmentation, paging virtual memory; protection, sharing, access control; file systems; resource management; evaluation and prediction of performance. Students are expedited to spend at least three hours per week gaining hands-on experience in using and modifying a small operating system.

Preparation for Course
Restricted to CS Majors (COMPSCI - MS Major or COMPSCI-NDG Major)

Cr. 3.
Dual Level Course
Undergraduate-Graduate