• Syllabus     (As MS Word Doc   or   PDF (Warning: It is a huge file generated by Acrobat Writer))

Useful links and online information

• Useful materials for Tanenbaum and van Steen's Distributed Systems.
• Some web sites on undergraduate operating systems.
  • Gary Nutt's supporting page for his textbook: Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective, Addison Wesley Longman, 2000.
  • Charles Crowley's supporting page for his textbook: Operating Systems: A Design-Oriented Approach, IRWIN, 1997.
  • Avi Silberschatz and Peter Galvin's supporting page for their textbook: Operating Systems Concepts, Fifth edition, Addison-Wesley Longman, 1998.
• Free UNIX Source Code (BSD version). This site also offers many source codes for many popular UNIX applications. You can learn many programming techniques by reading other's codes.
• Unix Information at Department of Computer Science, Florida State University.
• Unix Online Man Pages, at Department of Computer Science, Florida State University.
• Some web pages of similiar courses at other universities. (Note: This information is collected and made available by Dr. Baker).
  • Iowa State University: CS552 Operating Systems
  • Oklahoma State University: CS 5323
  • University of Kentucky: CS570
  • University of Vermont: CS 5204
  • Colorado State University: CS 551
  • Temple University: CSI 561
  • UCLA: CS239
  • University of New Mexico: CS 587
  • University of Pittsburgh: CS 2510
  • Calif. State Univ - Long Beach: CECS 525/626
  • Northeastern University: COM 3337
  • University of Vermont: CS 5204
  • Washington University in St. Louis: CS 422S
  • Old Dominion University: CS 771/871
  • Texas A & M Univ: CPSC 613
  • University of Illinois - UC: EECS 573
• Google Web Search Engine.

Important dates

• Will be offered Spring 2003.
• Time: TR 3:35 - 4:45 PM
• Place: Love 103
• Final exam: 5:30-7:30PM on April 29, 2003.

News and Announcements

• Please read the syllabus carefully as it was updated recently.
• I have set up an email list for the class and sent a message to the list (dated: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:05:49). If you have not received the message or want me to send the future messages regarding this class to a different address, please send me a request from the account you want to use. I will add that to the list. (Note, however, I cannot remove your previous address from the list if you have received the message.)
• Homework #2 is now due on Feb. 25, 2003. However, no late submission will be accepted.

Handouts

Assignments and Solutions

• Diagram for stable sender-initiated algorithm    ( Word format)
• Homework #2 Solutions    ( Word format)

Last modified on December 19, 2002