Introduction to Operating Systems

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Note: This course is not available for the current semester.

Course No: INFO.2785; Last Offered: Spring 2024;

Course Description

This course introduces and develops the major components of operating systems, including the process and thread abstractions, concurrency and synchronization mechanisms, deadlock management strategies, processor allocation, memory management, I/O device and file management, and system virtualization. The course also presents techniques for operating system design, implementation, and evaluation. The principal demonstration system will be Linux, and several system utilities will be introduced to highlight the functional deployment of the core OS issues discussed.

Prerequisites & Notes

  • Prerequisites: INFO.1600 Introduction to Information Systems, and INFO.2670 C Programming.
  • Special Notes:
  • Credits: 3; Contact Hours: 3

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