Return to 330 homepage Overview of operating systems: history, functionality, design issues. Operating system principles: structures, abstractions, and APIs. Concurrency: process state, context switches, mutual exclusion, semaphores, deadlock. Scheduling: preemption, schedulers, processes, and threads. Memory management: swapping, paging, segmentation, placement and replacement policies. File systems. User Interface. Distributed algorithms: consensus, termination, fault tolerance.
Prerequisite: CS 210