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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Engineering : School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

433-332 Operating Systems

Credit Points:

12.5

Coordinator:

Professor R. Kotagiri

Prerequisite/s:

Computer Science 433-242, 433-243 and 433-244. (From 1998: 433-252, 433-253, 433-254.)

Pre/Corequisite/s:

Computer Science 433-241 or Electrical Engineering 431-204. (From 1998: 431-204 or 433-251.)

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

26 hours of lectures and approximately 17 hours of practice classes

Objectives:

On successful completion of this subject students should:

  • understand the function of operating system components and their interactions;

  • be able to exploit operating system facilities to improve the functionality and efficiency of programs;

  • be able to evaluate the suitability of a given operating system for a given task.

Content:

Operating system structure: interrupts, system calls. Memory management: paging, segmentation. Concurrent processes: mutual exclusion, synchronisation, deadlocks, scheduling. Input/output, DMA. File systems, security. Introduction to distributed systems.

Assessment:

Up to three hours of written examinations at the end of the subject. Project work, which is expected to take about 36 hours, must be completed satisfactorily to pass the subject. Weighting of assessment components will be made known at the commencement of the subject.
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