CS421: General Information

Course Title:

Introduction to Operating Systems

Instructor:

Dr. Davin Milun

Lecture:

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00-9:50 AM Knox 14

Office:

320 Bell Hall, 645-3180 x 127

Email:

milun@cse.buffalo.edu

Instructor WWW:

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~milun/

Course WWW:

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~milun/cs421/

Office Hours:

I'm usually in my office from 9-5

TAs:

Manika Kapoor (mkapoor@cse.buffalo.edu), Chunsheng Xin (xin@cse.buffalo.edu)

TA office hours:

Manika Kapoor: Mon 4-5pm. Fri 10-11am. 332 Bell.

Chunsheng Xin: Tue 3:30-4:30pm. Fri 2-3pm. Trailer A.

Recitation A1:

Monday 2:00-2:50 PM 121 Cooke

Recitation A2:

Wednesday 10:00-10:50 AM 263 Capen

Recitation A3:

Tuesday 12:30-1:20 PM 117 Clemens

Required Text:

William Stallings, Operating Systems, Third Edition. Prentice Hall, 1998

Strongly Recommended Text:

Nichols, Buttlar and Farrell Pthreads Programming. O'Reilly, 1996

References:

UNIX man pages. Notes made available at Makin' Copies.

Prerequisites:

CS 241 (Digital Systems), CS 250 (Algorithms and Data Structures), and a working knowledge of C or C++.

Important Dates:

See ~milun/cs421/dates on armstrong/gagarin/yeager,
Midterm exam : Monday October 19 (open book, open notes)
Tentative project due dates: P1 Sun 9/27, P2 Thu 10/29, P3 Thu 12/10

Computer Use

Tentative Syllabus

Course Requirements and Procedures

Project Submission Policy and Guidelines

Other information and links

Project 1

Project 2 (PDF format)

Project 3 (html to follow) (PDF format) (PostScript format)

Research Paper