Overview

• Ceng 328 is intended as a general introduction to the techniques used to implement operating systems and related kinds of systems software.
• Among the topics covered will be;
  • basic operating system structure,
  • process and thread synchronization,
  • process scheduling and resource management,
  • process management (creation, synchronization, and communication),
  • memory management techniques, main-memory management, virtual memory management,
  • file-system structure,
  • control of disks and other input/output devices,
  • deadlock prevention, avoidance, and recovery.
• This course assumes familiarity with basic computer organization (e.g., processors, memory, and I/O devices).