Course Material for Operating Systems 2007/08

• Slides for the course:
  • Overview
  • Processes
  • Scheduling
  • Concurrency
  • Memory Management
  • File Systems
  • Distributed Systems
  • Embedded Systems
  • Operating Systems Kernel Architectures
  • Security Aspects of Operating Systems
  Example programs:
  • Reader/Writer program with lots of scheduling points.
  • Reader/Writer program without scheduling point.s
  • Reader/Writer program with semaphores.
  • Dining Philosophers
  The details of the internet worm are contained in a special issue of the Communications of the ACM published in June 1989.
• Exercise Sheets:
  • Exercise Sheet 1.
  • Exercise Sheet 2.
  • Exercise Sheet 3.
  • Exercise Sheet 4.
• The assessed exercise for students taking the extended module is available here.
• Past exam papers:
  • May 2005
  • May 2004
  • May 2003
  • May 2002
  • May 2001
  • May 2000
  • May 1999
  • January 1998

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