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Wk	Date	Lec No.	Lecture Topic (Tentative Schedule)	Notes	Reading (7th edition/6th edition)	Assignment
1	M 8/28	1	Introduction, What is an Operating System Anyway???	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th Ch 1 S&G 6th Ch 1
	W 8/30	2	Operating Systems History, Services, and Structure	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th Ch2 S&G 6th Ch 2-3 Fernando J. Corbató, "On Building Systems That Will Fail", Turing Award Lecture, 1991
2	M 9/4	Holiday (Labor Day) No Class
	W 9/6	3	Concurrency: Processes and Threads	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th Ch 3 S&G 6th Ch 4 Edsger W. Dijkstra, 'The structure of the “THE”-multiprogramming system' Communications of the ACM, Volume 11 ,  Issue 5  (May 1968)
	Th 9/7					Project Team Choices due 11:59 pm
3	M 9/11	4	Thread Dispatching	[ppt,ps,pdf]	Read Nachos Thread code	Project 1 Begin
	W 9/13	5	Cooperating Threads	[ppt,ps,pdf]
4	M 9/18	6	Synchronization	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th Ch 6 S&G 6th Ch 7 John R. Garman, "The Bug Heard 'round the World," ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol 6 No 5, Oct 1981 Nancy Leveson, "Medical Devices: The Therac-25", Safeware: System Safety and Computers, Adison-Wesley, 1995
	W 9/20	7	Implementing Mutual Exclusion, Semaphores, Monitors, and Condition Variables	[ppt,ps,pdf]	Andrew D. Birrell, "An Introduction to Programming with Threads," DIGITAL SRC Research Report 35, Jan 1989
5	M 9/25	8	Readers/Writers; Language Support for Synchronization	[ppt,ps,pdf]		Project 1 Initial Design due 11:59pm
	W 9/27	9	Tips for working in a Project Team/ Cooperating Processes and Deadlock	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th Ch 7 S&G 6th Ch 8
6	M 10/2	10	Deadlock (con't) / CPU Scheduling	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th Ch. 5 S&G 6th Ch. 6
	W 10/4	11	Scheduling (con't)  / Protection: Kernel and Address Spaces	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th:  1.5(review), 3.3-3.4, 8.1-8.3 S&G 6th: 2.5 (review), 4.3, 4.5, and 9.1-9.3
	Th 10/5					Project 1 Code due 11:59pm Project 2 Begin
7	M 10/9	12	Address Translation	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th: 8.4-8.8 S&G 6th: 9.4-9.7
	W 10/11	MIDTERM I (4:00pm - 7:00-pm, 10 Evans)
8	M 10/16	13	Address Translation 2, Caching and TLBs	[ppt,ps,pdf]
	W 10/18	14	Caching and TLBs 2, Caching and Demand Paging	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th: Ch 9 S&G 6th: Ch 10 H Levy and P. Lipman, "Virtual Memory Management in the VAX/VMS Operating Systems," Computing Surveys, 4(3) September 1972, pp. 149-167	Project 2 Initial Design due 11:59pm
9	M 10/23	15	Page Allocation and Replacement	[ppt,ps,pdf]
	W 10/25	16	Page Allocation and Replacement 2, Survey of I/O Systems	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th: Chapter 13 S&G 6th: Chapter 13
	Th 10/26					Project 2 Code Due at 11:59pm Project 3 Begin
10	M 10/30	17	File Systems and Disk Management	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th: Chapter 11, 12 S&G 6th: Chapter 12, 14
	W 11/1	18	Filesystems, Naming, and Directories	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th: Chapter 10 S&G 6th: Chapter 11 Leon Presser and John White, "Linkers and Loaders" Supplemental reading on Queuing Theory: Several Queuing Theory Books Online
11	M 11/6	19	Filesystems, Naming, and Directories II	[ppt,ps,pdf]	M. McKusick, W. Joy, S. Leffler, and R. Fabry: "A Fast File System for UNIX", ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol 2, No 3, August 1984, Pages 181-197	Project 3 Initial Design due 11:59pm
	W 11/8	20	Networks and Distributed Systems	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th: Chapter 16 S&G 6th: Chapter 15 N. Leveson and C. Turner, "An investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents", IEEE Computer, 15(3), July1993 pp. 18-41. Newer version.
12	M 11/13	21	Network Protocols	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th: Chapter 17, 18 S&G 6th: Chapter 16, 17
	W 11/15	22	Network Protocols II	[ppt,ps,pdf]
	Th 11/16					Project 3 Code Due at 11:59pm Project 4 Begin
13	M 11/20	23	Network Communication Abstractions/RPC	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th: Section 3.6, Chapter 18 S&G 6th: Section 4.6, Chapter 17 The Byzantine Generals Problem. Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Vol 4, No. 3, July 1982, Pages 382-401
	W 11/22	24	Testing/Distributed File Systems	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th: Chapter 18 S&G 6th: Chapter 17
	Th 11/23	< Thanksgiving Holiday >
	F 11/24
14	M 11/27	25	Protection and Security in Distributed Systems	[ppt,ps,pdf]	S&G 7th: Chapters 14, 15 S&G 6th: Chapters 18, 19
	T 11/28					Proj 4 Initial Design due 11:59pm
	W 11/29	26	Protection and Security in Distributed Systems II	[ppt,ps,pdf]
15	M 12/4	MIDTERM II (4:00pm - 7:00-pm, 10 Evans)
	W 12/6	27	Assorted Topics and Peer-to-Peer Systems	[ppt,ps,pdf]	OceanStore: An Architecture for Global-Scale Persistent Storage, J. Kubiatowicz, et. al. Also, see OceanStore web site The Cathedral and the Bazaar, by Eric Steven Raymond
	F 12/8					Proj 4 Code Due at 11:59pm
	Sat 12/16	FINAL (8:00am - 11:00, Bechtel Auditorium)