TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE

Part 1: overview

1/14    Introduction, History of OS design
1/16    Computer Structures 
1/21    Operating System Structures 


Part 2: Process management

1/24 Q1 Processes 1, Processes 2 
1/28	Threads, IPC 
1/30    Nachos
2/4	CPU Scheduling
2/6  H1	Modern OS CPU Scheduling 
2/11    exam
2/13    Synchronization 
2/18	Semaphores
2/20 Q2	Locks and condition variables


Part 3: Storage Management

2/25	User memory management 
2/27 	Kernel memory management
3/4  P1	Paging and virtual memory 
3/6	File system interface and organization 
3/11 H2	
3/13	exam


Part 4 I/O Systems

3/18	I/O, device drivers, STREAMS 
3/20    Disk space allocation and management 
     P2	spring break
4/1	
4/3	Mass storage structure, RAID
4/8  Q3	Unix signals and terminal management 

Part 5 Distributed Systems

4/10 	Distributed systems 
4/15 P3	Distributed file systems 

Part 6 Protection and Security

4/17 	Distributed coordination

Part 7 Case Studies

4/22	Distributed coordination 2
4/24    OS Security
4/29 H3 Windows NT 
5/1     Linux 

Final Exam: 8:00-10:00am Monday May 5