BLG 312E - Computer Operating Systems

Course Objectives

Teach students fundamentals of operating systems, design issues, algorithms and structures. Programming projects aim to provide experience to support basic concepts.

Course Description

Introduction, history. Processes: basic concepts, concurrent processes, mutual exclusion, process management, scheduling approaches. Deadlock and deadlock prevention approaches. Memory management: segmentation, paging, related methods, virtual memory. Input/Output. UNIX and other example operating systems.