CS 1550

Introduction to Operating Systems

Fall 1996/1997
Mondays and Wednesdays from 5:45PM to 7:05PM

332 Alumni Hall

Instructor

Rami Melhem (melhem@cs.pitt.edu)
219 Mineral Industries Building,
phone: 624-8426
Office Hours:
Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:00 to 5:30
Thursdays from 9:30 to 11:00

Teaching assistant

Tarun Nakra (nakra@cs.pitt.edu)
311 Mineral Industries Building,
phone: 624-8850
Office Hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:00 to 6:30
Wednesdays from 2:00 to 3:00

Recitations

Mondays OR Wednesdays from 7:15PM to 8:05PM
332 Alumni Hall

Texts

• Operating System Concepts, (Required text)
  by A. Silberschatz and P. Galvin - Addison-Wesley.
  
• Inside the PC, (Recommended text)
  by P. Norton - Sams Publishing.

Requirements and grading:

• 3 or 4 programming projects (50%)
• Two exams (2 X 25%).

Policy on cheating and late homeworks

Programming projects are to be individual efforts. Collaboration is considered cheating. Cheating on exam or projects will results in a grade of "0" for the first time (for all involved students) and an "F" in the course for the second time.
There will be a 8% per day penalty for late work. Work that is more than five days late will not be accepted. Exams will not be rescheduled except under extraordinary circumstances.

Course Outlines:

• OS concept and evolution,
• Hardware organization,
• OS compoments and services,
• I/O processing,
• Process management (scheduling and services)
• Memory management
• Disk storage and file system

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