Operating Systems Concepts, 7th ed., Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Galvin and Greg Gagne, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-69466-5, student materials .

The C Programming Language, ANSI C, 2nd ed., Kernighan and Ritchie, Prentice Hall, 1988, ISBN 110362-8.

CS 344
CS 241 or EE 360 or EE 264

• Give students an overview of the major concepts in modern operating systems
• Expose students to the historical development of operating systems
• Expose students to several major operating systems and the APIs they provide to the programmer
• Provide hands-on experience with systems programming and operating system implementations

• Students will understand the major components of modern operating systems including include process management (asynchronous processes, interprocess communication and synchronization, multithreading, deadlock and starvation, scheduling), storage management (paging/segmentation, virtual memory, file systems), protection and security issues, and an introduction to distributed systems.
• Students will understand how operating system concepts are implemented
• Students will be exposed to the historical development of operating systems
• Students will understand how applications interact with the operating system and each other
• Students will be able to use a variety of user level tools to monitor the behavior of operating systems
• Students will be familiar with the programming APIs of both Windows and Linux/UNIX