CTP203
Operating Systems

Spring 2000 - Course Outline

Instructor : Can Ugur Ayfer
Assistant : Ece Yargi

Course Outline

• Review of computer architecture
• What is an Operating System?
• Life without an operating system
• Computer Resources
  • CPU
  • Memory
  • Peripherals
• Operating system strategies (batch systems, personal computer OSs, time-sharing systems, real time OSs, network OSs
• Device Management
  • Basic digital computer I/O
  • Interfaces
  • Controllers
• Process Management
  • Single User environments
  • Multi tasking envs
  • Multi user envs
  • Process Scheduling Strategies
  • Process Synscronizations and Deadlocks
• Memory Management
  • The compile-link-load-go cycle
  • Memory Allocation
  • Dynamic address relocation
• Virtual Memory
  • Swapping
  • Paging
    • Static Paging
    • Dynamic Paging
• File Management
• Security
• Network Operating Systems
  • The OSI Network Architecture
  • Remote File Systems
  • Distributed Computing
• UNIX, the Queen of OSs

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