This schedule is tentative and most likely will be revised. Among other things, the assignments are not yet cast in stone and some of the assignment links are dangling. More assignments may be added.
You may also be interested in the Spring 2007 syllabus, which has old copies of scribe notes.
| date | due | textbook readings | lecture topics | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01-07 M | Introduction | |||
| 01-09 W | §1, §2–§2.C | Abstractions and bootstrapping | ||
| 01-14 M | §4–§4.A.2, §5–§5.A, §5.C | Modularity and virtualization | ||
| 01-15 T | Lab 1a | |||
| 01-16 W | §5.E | OS organization | ||
| 01-23 W | WeensyOS 1 | Orthogonality, processes, and races | ||
| 01-25 F | Lab 1b | |||
| 01-28 M | §5.B (except §5.B.5) | Signals, scheduling, and threads | ||
| 01-30 W | §6.C–§6.C.3 | Scheduling algorithms | ||
| 02-04 M | §9.A.3–§9.A.5 | Consistency; critical sections | ||
| 02-06 W | §5.B.5, §5.F | Synchronization primitives; deadlock | ||
| 02-11 M | Lab 2 | midterm | ||
| 02-13 W | §6.A | File system performance | ||
| 02-20 W | Appendix 2-A | File system design | ||
| 02-25 M | §6.C.4 | File system implementation | ||
| 02-27 W | Lab 3 | §8.A.1, §8.B.1, §8.D.1, §9–§9.A.3, §9.B | File system robustness | |
| 03-03 M | §5.D, §6.B intro, §6.B.3–§6.B.9 | Virtual memory | ||
| 03-05 W | §4.B, §4.C | VM and processes; distributed systems | ||
| 03-07 F | WeensyOS 2 | |||
| 03-10 M | Appendix 4-B | Robustness, parallelism, and NFS | ||
| 03-12 W | §11–§11.H | Security | ||
| 03-13 R | Lab 4 | |||
| 03-14 F | 1-page report |
All assignments are due at 23:59:59 on the date specified. Design problem due dates are one week after the normal lab due dates, except for the Lab 4 which are due on 03-14, the last day of instruction.
The final exam is Monday, 2008-03-17, 15:00–18:00.