TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE

Part 1: overview

1/20    Introduction
1/22    History of OS design

1/27    Computer, OS structures 


Part 2: Process management

1/29   Processes 1, processes 2 

2/3 Q1 Threads, IPC 
2/5    CPU scheduling

2/10    Modern OS CPU scheduling 
2/12    Synchronization 

2/17 	Semaphores
2/19 H1    

2/24    Midterm exam
2/26	Locks and condition variables

Part 3: Memory management

3/3 	User memory management 
3/5  Q2 Kernel memory management

3/10 P1  Paging and virtual memory 

Part 4: Storage Management

3/12  File system interface and organization 

3/17 H2  
3/19    Midterm exam


3/31    I/O, device drivers, STREAMS 
        Disk space allocation and management 

 4/2    Mass storage structure, RAID
 4/7    Unix signals and terminal management 


Part 5: Protection and Security 

 4/9 P2	OS Security

Part 6: Distributed systems

4/14    Distributed systems 
4/16 Q3 Distributed file systems 

4/21    Distributed coordination

Part 7: Case Studies

4/23    Linux
4/28 P3 Windows XP
4/30 

5/2  H3 
5/7

Final Exam: 12:45-3:00pm on Tuesday, May 12th in MSB 115