UCLA Computer Science 111, Winter 2019.
Operating Systems Principles

Instructor: Paul Eggert, Engineering VI 363. Office hours are Mondays 14:15–15:15 and Thursdays 11:00–12:00.

Teaching assistants, with office hours published on CCLE:

Lecture, 4 hours; laboratory, 2 hours; outside study, 9 hours.

Prerequisites: Computer Science 32, 33, and 35L.

Introduction to operating systems design and evaluation. Computer software systems performance, robustness, and functionality. Kernel structure, bootstrapping, input/output (I/O) devices and interrupts. Processes and threads; address spaces, memory management, and virtual memory. Scheduling, synchronization. File systems: layout, performance, robustness. Distributed systems: networking, remote procedure call (RPC), asynchronous RPC, distributed file systems, transactions. Protection and security. Exercises involving applications using, and internals of, real-world operating systems. Letter grading.

Related Computer Science Curricula 2013 (CS2013) knowledge units:

Related IEEE/ACM Software Engineering 2004 (SE2004) bodies of knowledge:

Related Computer Engineering Curricula 2016 (CE2016) knowledge units:


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