G53OPSOperating Systems
Dr. Graham Kendall
Course Introduction
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Course Introduction
• Course– Operating Systems
• Lecturer– Graham Kendall
– Room C76 (by appointment)
• Web Page– http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gxk
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Course Introduction
• Lectures– 20 (ish)
• Lecture Times and Locations– Monday 10:00 (C33)
– Friday 10:00 (C3)
• Assessment– 75% examination (2 hours) - 4 Questions from 6
– 25% coursework (Processes)
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Textbooks
• Modern Operating Systems (Andrew Tanenbaum)
• Operating Systems Concepts (Abraham Silberschatz and Peter Galvin)
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Sample Lecture and Coursework Schedule
• Introduction and Background (Tanenbaum, Ch. 1)
– Lectures 1, 2
• Processes (Tanenbaum, Ch. 2)
– Lectures 3, 4, 5, 6
• Memory Management (Tanenbaum, Ch. 3)
– Lectures 7, 8, 9, 10
• File Systems (Tanenbaum, Ch. 4)
– Lectures 11, 12, 13, 14
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Sample Lecture and Coursework Schedule
• Input/Output (Tanenbaum, Ch. 5)
– Lectures 15, 16, 17, 18
• Revision– Lectures 19, 20
• In addition, there may be some required reading from Tananbaum, which is examinable
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Proposed Lecture and Coursework Schedule
• Guest Lecture– Possibly a guest lecturer giving six lectures
– Subject is probably input/output
– Will need additional lecture slots in the week the guest lecturer is here
– Possibly six lectures that week
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