Lecturer: Mr S.M. Hand
No. of lectures: 8
This course is a prerequisite for Distributed Systems (Part II and Diploma).
Last year's course is described below. Details of this year's course will be available nearer the time.
Introduction.
Memory management.
Memory protection and sharing.
Integrated and separated I/O.
Filing systems, file and directory structure and access control.
Physical space management.
Backup and archiving.
Naming.
Protection.
Segmentation revisited.
Case studies.
Recommended books:
Bacon, J. (1993). Concurrent Systems. Addison-Wesley (2nd ed.).
Silberschatz, A., Peterson, J.L. & Galvin, P.C. (1991). Operating Systems Concepts. Addison-Wesley (3rd ed.).
Janson, P.A. (1985). Operating Systems, Structure and Mechanisms. Academic Press.
Finkel, R.A. (1988). An Operating System Vade Mecum. Prentice-Hall (2nd ed.).
Tanenbaum, A.S. (1992). Modern Operating Systems. Prentice-Hall.