CS 656: Operating Systems

Course Information

Course Summary

This course is concerned with theoretical and practical issues of operating system design. The emphasis of the lecture is on theoretical concepts of distributed operating systems. Other topics include formal protection models and real-time operating systems. The homeworks and the semester project emphasize practical aspects of operating systems.

Note:

• This is an archived  web page of a course that was taught in Spring 1995. 
• This is not the course website for CS 656.

Course Material

• Syllabus (Postscript)
• Reading List.

• Handouts (Click here for latest handout).

• Exercises #1 with Solutions (Postscript).
• Exercises #2 with Solutions (Postscript).
• Exercises #3 with Solutions (Postscript).
• Exercises #4 with Solutions (Postscript).
• Exercises #5(Postscript). (Solutions only available as hardcopies)

• Homework #1 (Postscript).
• Homework #2 (Postscript) <--- See also the Nachos link.
• Homework #3 (Postscript) <--- See also the Nachos link.

Additional Material

• Exams from Spring 1994 (Exam #1, Exam #2). (The structure of CS656 is different from last year. In 1994, there was a section that reviewed "Undergraduate OS" and Exam #1 refers to that section).
• Final Exam from Spring 1994. (In 1994, we had a take-home final exam).
• Information on Nachos
• CS 656 project topics from Spring 1994.

Communications

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