Week 1

• Intro, Policies, What are OSes? [pdf] (Read: Chapters 1 and 2)
• Hardware support: dual-mode operation, timer, interupts, vectors, exceptions, faults, traps, syscalls [pdf] (Read: Chapter 6) / Additional Notes

Week 2

• Processes, PCBs, The Process Life cycle, Fork-Exec-Wait [pdf] (Read: Chapters 4 and 5) / Additional Notes
• User and Kernel-level Threads [pdf] (Read: Chapters 26 and 27) / Additional Notes

Week 3

• Job Scheduling (Processes and Threads) [pdf] (Read: Chapters 7 and 8) / Additional Notes
• Introduction to Synchronization (Concurrency, by memory atomicity, test-and-set, etc) [pdf] (Read: Chapters 28 and 29) / Additional Notes

Week 4

• Semaphores, Producer-Consumer, Readers-Writers[pdf] (Read: Chapters 28 and 29) / Additional Notes
• See above. Both days combined into one deck.

Week 5

• Monitors and Condition Variables [pdf] (Read: Chapter 30 and 31) / Additional Notes
• Deadlock [pdf] (Read: Chapter 32) / Additional Notes

Week 6

• Midterm Exam
• Miderm Exam Review

Week 7

• Virtual Memory, Part I (Read: Chapter 15, 16, and 18) / Additional Notes
• Virtual Memory, Part II (Read: Chapter 19 and 20) / Additional Notes

Week 8

• Demand Paging (Read: Chapter 21, 22, and 23) / Additional Notes
• User-Level Memory Management (The Design and Implementation of Malloc and Free)

Week 9

• IO, Disk Scheduling, and File Systems (Read: Chapter 39 and 40) / Additional Notes
• More Advanced File Systems

Final Exams

• Thursday, June 9th, 2016 (Final Exam: 7:00- 9:50pm in PCYNH 109)