G53OPS Operating Systems

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G53OPSOperating Systems

• Dr. Graham Kendall

Course Introduction
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Course Introduction

• Course
• Operating Systems
• Lecturer
• Graham Kendall
• GXK_at_CS.NOTT.AC.UK
• Room C80 (by appointment)
• Web Page
• http//www.cs.nott.ac.uk/gxk

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Course Introduction

• Lectures
• 20 (ish)
• Lecture Times and Locations
• Monday 1000 (C33)
• Tuesday 0900 (C3)
• Assessment
• 100 examination (2 hours) - 4 Questions from 6
• OR 25 coursework and 75 Exam

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Textbooks

• Modern Operating Systems (Andrew Tanenbaum)
• Operating Systems Concepts (Abraham Silberschatz
  and Peter Galvin)

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Sample Lecture and Coursework Schedule

• Introduction and Background (Tanenbaum, Ch. 1)
• Lectures 1, 2
• Processes (Tanenbaum, Ch. 2)
• Lectures 3, 4, 5, 6
• Memory Management (Tanenbaum, Ch. 3)
• Lectures 7, 8, 9, 10
• File Systems (Tanenbaum, Ch. 4)
• Lectures 11, 12, 13, 14

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Sample Lecture and Coursework Schedule

• Input/Output (Tanenbaum, Ch. 5)
• Lectures 15, 16, 17, 18
• Revision
• Lectures 19, 20
• In addition, there may be some required reading
  from Tananbaum, which is examinable

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Proposed Lecture and Coursework Schedule

• Guest Lecture
• Possibly a guest lecturer giving six lectures
• Subject as yet unknown
• May need to take the Artificial Intelligence
  Methods lecture slots
• May need to add a couple of extra lectures