UCLA Computer Science 111 Lecture 2, Winter 2004.
Operating Systems Principles

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Instructor: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Boelter 4532J.

Teaching assistants:

• Steve VanDeBogart <vandebo@cs.ucla.edu> (Boelter 3820; principal TA for section 2)
• Petros Efstathopoulos <pefstath@cs.ucla.edu>
• Petros Zerfos <pzerfos@cs.ucla.edu>

Lecture, 4 hours; laboratory, 2 hours; outside study, 6 hours.

Prerequisites: Computer Science 32, 33.

Introduction to design and performance evaluations of modern operating systems. Mapping and binding of addresses. Organization of multiprogramming and multiprocessing systems; interrupts, process model, and interlocks. Resource allocation models and problem of deadlocks. Scheduling, synchronization. Memory management, virtual memory. input/output (I/O) control, file systems. Letter grading.

Related IEEE/ACM Computing Curricula 2001 bodies of knowledge:

• OS1. Overview of operating systems
• OS2. Operating system principles
• OS3. Concurrency
• OS4. Scheduling and dispatch
• OS5. Memory management
• OS6. Device management
• OS7. Security and protection
• OS8. File systems
• OS12. Scripting