CS422S: Operating Systems Organization (Spring 2003)


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Welcome to the Spring 2003 CS422 Course Homepage!

Here you can find all the information that you'll need throughout the semester. Use the navigation bar on the left to access the course overview, lecture notes, homework, Teaching Assistents (with office hours) and a list of references. All announcements will be made on this page so I recommend you monitor it regularly.

If you would like to check out previous offerings of this course, see Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002.

Course Information

Instructor: Fred Kuhns
Class:
Time: Tuesday/Thursday 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Cupples II, room 217
Textbooks:
Required:Gary Nutt, "Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective", Second Edition, Lab Update, Addison Wesley, 2002.
Recommended: Gregory Andrews, "Foundations of Mutlithreaded, Parallel, and Distributed Programming", Addison Wesley, 2000
Newsgroup: CS422 Newsgroup
Exams:
Midterm Exam: Thursday February 27, standard class time.
Final Exam: Friday, 2 May, 1:00PM - 3:00PM; Cupples II, Rm 217 (our usual class room)

Announcements

  • Final
    I posted the solutions to the example problems I handed out on Thursday, see the class notes link. You should also study the example problems I handed out on 4/3.
    Posted: Fri 25 Apr 03 12:58:56 by fredk

  • Project 4
    Project 4 is now posted on the homework page.
    Posted: Thu 10 Apr 03 16:45:51 by fredk

  • Project 3 Solution
    My solution for project 3 is in the following source directory.
    Posted: Tue 1 Apr 03 17:44:01 by fredk

  • Example REDME file
    Aaron Tenney's project 2 README file is an excellent example of what I am looking for: an overview of you project implemenation and a critical assesment of its behavior. He has agreed to make it (README.aet1) available.
    Posted: Tue 25 Mar 03 10:09:16 by fredk

  • Project 3 and Homework Assignment 6 now posted.
    I have posted the next project and homework assignments. See the homework web page for details.
    Posted: Thu 13 Mar 03 17:25:17 by fredk

  • Homework solutions.
    I have posted the homework solutions for assignments 4 and 5. See the homework web page for details.
    Posted: Thu 13 Mar 03 17:24:01 by fredk

  • Example solution for project 1
    Aaron Tenney received a perfect score on his project and has agreed to my posting it as an example of a well prepared project.
    See Aaron_Tenney for a listing of his submitted files.
    Posted: Fri 21 Feb 03 09:52:54 by fredk

  • Homework solutions
    Homework 2 solutions: MSWord or pdf. A more detailed figure for problem 3 in chapter 5 is given in this MS powerpoint file.
    Homework 3 Solutions: MSWord or pdf.
    Posted: Mon Feb 17 19:17:01 by fredk

  • Assignment 4
    I have posted homework assignment 4, see the homework page for details.
    Posted: Tue 11 Feb 03 17:01:36 by fredk

  • Midterm
    I am tentatively planning to have the midterm exam on Thursday, 27 February - the thursday before spring break.
    Posted: Thu 6 Feb 03 18:09:52 by fredk

  • Programming project 2
    Project 2 is now posted on the homework page.
    Posted: Thu 6 Feb 03 18:08:45 by fredk

  • Updated source for helper library
    I have fixed the initializtion bug in the stats libraryfor project1. For updated source (you need wulib/stat.c) see /home/cec/class/cs422/Project1/cs422_lab1_v2 or cs422_lab1_v2.tar.gz
    Posted: Mon 3 Feb 03 16:56:54 by fredk

  • Assignement 3 now posted
    See the homework page for details.
    I have updated the IPC class notes, refer to the Notes page.
    Posted: Thu 30 Jan 03 18:47:58 by fredk

  • Example source for project 1
    I am making my code (or part of it) available for you to use. You can access it either from the cs422 CEC account in the directory /home/cec/class/cs422/Project1/cs422_lab1 or using a browser project1.tar.gz. I leave it to you to figure out how to use the nested makefiles and library.
    Posted: Tue 28 Jan 03 17:17:59 by fredk

  • Final exam date and time have been set
    Friday, 2 May, 1:00PM - 3:00PM
    Posted: Tue 28 Jan 03 13:28:57 by fredk

  • Second assignment and first project are now posted
    For homework and project description see the Homework page.
    Posted: Fri 24 Jan 03 12:58:50 by fredk

  • New references
    I added some online references to the References page
    Posted: Tue 21 Jan 03 18:26:33 by fredk

  • TA Office Hours
    See TA page.
    Posted: Tue 21 Jan 03 09:45:19 by fredk

  • First homework assignment
    The first assignment has been posted on the homework page.
    Posted: Fri Jan 17 18:36:07 CST 2003

Mon Dec 23 16:43:24 CST 2002, by fredk@arl.wustl.edu