Class Notes: Survey of Operating Systems (with UNIX)

Spring 2001 - Tue 5th Period CSE/E220

Instructor: Mark Schmalz

Housekeeping Details

• Syllabus - Rev. 1 (19 Dec 2001)
  • Required Class Materials - Textbooks, Notes, etc.
  • Optional Class Materials - Textbooks, Periodicals, etc.

• What's New
  Thu 05-03-01: Final Exam 10:00am to 12:00pm, in classroom
  Wed 05-02-01: Key for Practice Final Exam posted
  Tue 05-01-01: Practice Test for Final Exam posted (Fall 2000 final exam)
  Mon 04-30-01: Review sheet for Final Exam posted
  Mon 04-16-01: Responses to student midterm suggestions posted
  Mon 03-26-01: Practice test for Exam #2 posted
  Sun 03-25-01: Review sheet for Exam #2 posted
  Tue 04-03-01: Midterm Exam #2, in class
  Fri 03-02-01: Key for Exam #1 posted
  Tue 02-28-01: Midterm Exam #1 reviewed in class
  Tue 02-20-01: Midterm Exam #1, in class
  Wed 02-14-01: Practice test for Exam #1 posted
  Mon 02-12-01: Review sheet for Exam #1 posted
  Tue 01-09-01: Assignment: Obtain a CISE computer account if you don't already have one
  Tue 01-09-01: First class -- Assignment: Obtain textbook if you don't already have one
  
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Course Material

1. Organization of Computers (Required Reading)
2. Overview of Operating Systems
   2.1. Early Operating Systems (1940s)
   2.2. Growth of Operating System Concepts (1950s)
   2.3. IBM System 360/OS and 370 Operating Systems (1960s, 1970s)
   2.4. Concurrency and Parallelism
   2.5. Impact of Personal Computers on OS Technology
   

3. Review of Basic UNIX Commands
   3.1. The UNIX Command Line Interface
   3.2. Overview of UNIX File System
   3.3. UNIX Documentation via man command
   3.4. File Commands
   3.5. Directory Commands
   3.6. Basic System Commands
   

4. Software Development with UNIX
   4.1. Editors: vi and emacs
   4.2. Compilers: C, C++, Java
   4.3. Libraries, Linkers, and Runtime Modules
   4.4. Overview of Makefiles
   

5. UNIX Control Features
   5.1. Regular Expressions
   5.2. Iteration and Control Statements
   5.3. Piping and I/O Redirection and Control
   
6. UNIX Advanced Features
   6.1. Communication using mail and talk
   6.2. Overview of Communications and Sockets
   6.3. Toolkits, including X-Windows and Motif
   6.4. Enhanced UNIX Operating Systems, including Mach
   

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Bibliography

• References Cited in Class

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