Lecture Schedule

The schedule listed on this page is tentative and may change during the term. I recommend that you print out the notes for each lecture and bring them with you to class, so that you can add additional notes during class. Recommended readings are listed at the beginning of the lecture notes for each topic.

Week 1

Lecture 1
Mon, Mar 31
Introduction, Operating System History[Slides]
Lecture 2
Wed, Apr 02
Processes, Threads, and Dispatching[Slides]
Lecture 3
Fri, Apr 04
Processes, Threads, and Dispatching, cont'd[Slides]
Concurrent Threads[Slides]

Week 6

Lecture 16
Mon, May 05
Demand Paging, cont'd[Slides]
Lecture 17
Wed, May 07
Demand Paging, cont'd[Slides]
Thrashing and Working Sets
Storage Devices[Slides]
Lecture 18
Fri, May 09
Storage Devices[Slides]

Week 2

Lecture 4
Mon, Apr 07
Concurrent Threads, cont'd[Slides]
Lecture 5
Wed, Apr 09
Locks and Condition Variables[Slides]
Lecture 6
Fri, Apr 11
Locks and Condition Variables[Slides]
Scheduling[Slides]

Week 7

Lecture 19
Mon, May 12
File Systems[Slides]
Lecture 20
Wed, May 14
File Systems, cont'd[Slides]
Lecture 21
Fri, May 16
File Systems, cont'd[Slides]
Directories and Links

Week 3

Lecture 7
Mon, Apr 14
Scheduling, cont'd[Slides]
Implementing Locks[Slides]
Lecture 8
Wed, Apr 16
Implementing Locks, cont'd[Slides]
Deadlock[Slides]
Lecture 9
Fri, Apr 18
Linkers and Dynamic Linking[Slides]

Week 8

Lecture 22
Mon, May 19
Directories and Links
File System Crash Recovery
Lecture 23
Wed, May 21
File System Crash Recovery, cont'd
Lecture 24
Fri, May 23
Protection[Slides]

Week 4

Lecture 10
Mon, Apr 21
Linkers and Dynamic Linking, cont'd[Slides]
Virtual Memory[Slides]
Lecture 11
Wed, Apr 23
Dynamic Storage Management
Lecture 12
Fri, Apr 25
Virtual Memory, cont'd[Slides]

Week 9

Lecture 25
Wed, May 28
Flash Memory
Lecture 26
Fri, May 30
Flash Memory, cont'd
Virtual Machines[Slides]

Week 5

Lecture 13
Mon, Apr 28
Virtual Memory, cont'd[Slides]
Lecture 14
Wed, Apr 30
Virtual Memory, cont'd[Slides]
Lecture 15
Fri, May 02
Demand Paging[Slides]

Week 10

Lecture 27
Mon, Jun 02
Virtual Machines, cont'd[Slides]
Lecture 28
Wed, Jun 04
Technology and Operating Systems[Slides]
Review and Wrapup