TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE

Part 1: overview

8/31    Introduction, History of OS design
9/2     Computer Structures 

9/7     Operating System Structures 


Part 2: Process management

9/9  Q1 Processes 1, Processes 2 

9/14	Threads, IPC 
9/16    Nachos

9/21	CPU Scheduling
9/23 	Modern OS CPU Scheduling 

9/28    Synchronization 
9/30 H1 Semaphores

10/5	exam
10/7 	Locks and condition variables


Part 3: Storage Management

10/12 P1 User memory management 
10/14    Kernel memory management

10/19    Paging and virtual memory 
10/21 Q2 File system interface and organization 

10/26    I/O, device drivers, STREAMS 
10/28	 Disk space allocation and management 


Part 4 I/O Systems

11/2  H2  
11/4    exam

11/9  P2 Mass storage structure, RAID
11/11	 veteran's day -- no class

11/16    Unix signals and terminal management 

Part 5 Distributed Systems

11/18    Distributed systems 
11/23 Q3 Distributed file systems 

Part 6 Protection and Security

11/25   thanksgiving -- no class
11/30 P3 OS Security

Part 7 Case Studies

12/2	Distributed coordination

12/7  H3 Windows XP
12/9     Linux 

Final Exam: 7:45-10:00am  Thursday, Dec 16