General Information

My Information

Name:	Jonathan Misurda
Office:	6213 Sennott Square
Phone:	(412) 624-8835
Email:	jmisurda@cs.pitt.edu
Office Hours:	Mon: 1:00–3:00 Tue, Thu: 3:00–5:00

You can find a copy of the syllabus here.

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• (12/09/10) — Project 4 grading will be partially based upon an in-person demonstration to one of the TAs. Please go to http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~pdillon/TA/cs1550/project4Signup.php to sign up for a time slot that both you and your partner can make.

• (11/18/10) — Project 4 is assigned. Please see the assignment sheet for the various deadlines. The assignment sheet can be found below.

• (11/02/10) — Project 3 is assigned due Sunday, November 14, 2010 by midnight. The assignment sheet can be found below.

• (10/19/10) — All of the slides are up for the midterm.

  Give the second quiz a try and when you're done, compare your answers to this key.

  Project 2 grading will be partially based upon an in-person demonstration to one of the TAs. Please go to http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~pdillon/TA/cs1550/project2Signup.php to sign up for a 15 minute time slot.

• (09/28/10) — Jesse's office hours this week are Monday 3–4:30 and Wednesday: 11:30–1. His normal hours will resume next week.

• (09/28/10) — Project 2 is assigned, due Sunday, October 17, 2010, by 11:59 pm. The assignment sheet and associated QEMU files can be found below.

• (09/20/10) — Thot is back up. Apparently the issue was with the AFS authentication and not any specific project. Please report when you're having issues but make sure to check the website first for announcements.

• (09/19/10) — Someone's project has an infinite loop of forks in it and seems to have overloaded thot. While I attempt to find someone who can reboot the machine, please use unixs.cis.pitt.edu to develop, test, and submit your project. It will be adequate for our purposes.

• (09/07/10) — Project 1 is assigned, due Sunday, September 19, 2010, by 11:59 pm. The assignment sheet and associated files can be found below.

  The TA office hours are listed below and by appointment. Mine are at the top of the page.

PJ:	Mon: 4:30–6:30 Wed, Fri: 1:00–3:00
Jesse:	Tue, Thu: 3:00–4:30

• (08/31/10) — Welcome to the Fall Term (2111)

Slides

• Chapter 1 Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 2 Scheduling Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 2 IPC Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 6 Deadlock Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 3 Virtual Memory Slides (PDF)

Midterm Topics (PDF)

• Chapter 3 Page Replacement (PDF)
• Chapter 5 I/O Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 5 Disks Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 6 Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 9 Part 1 Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 9 Part 2 Slides (PDF)

Final Exam Topics (PDF)

Projects

For the second project you will need a copy of QEMU and a bootable diskimage. The disk image we will be using and a copy of QEMU for windows is available by clicking here. For Mac users: Q.app.

• Project 4: File System
• Project 3: VM Simulator
• Project 2: Syscalls and IPC
• Project 1: Writing a Shell
  • lex.c
  • myshell.c
  • testpipe.c - example using dup2

Links

• Download putty: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

• Unix Command Reference (from CSSD): Here