CS 330-01, Operating Systems, Fall 2009

Abstract

The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to the concepts of classical Operating System issues and design. • When you successfully complete this course, you should be able to: o explain how operating systems manage concurrent processes including the complete lifecycle of user processes, threads, process synchronization, and deadlock avoidance. o evaluate algorithms used for process scheduling, memory allocation and disk access. o understand how operating systems manage physical and virtual memory including segmentation and paging. o describe the organization of different file systems used with the Windows and UNIX operating systems. o develop programs which demonstrate the use of