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Assignments

There is a homework assignment due at the beginning of each lecture. The assignment is usually comprised of a reading assignment and/or a written portion to be turned in at the beginning of class. Unless otherwise specified, readings referenced in the lecture notes are from the course textbook: Lions, John. Lions Commentary on UNIX® 6th Edition. La Jolla: Annabooks, 1996 (ISBN No. 1-57398-013-7).

LEC #	TOPICS	ASSIGNMENTS
Week 1
1	Operating System Overview	(PDF)
Week 2
2	PC Hardware and x86 Programming	(PDF)
3	Address Spaces	(PDF)
Week 3
4	Managing Address Spaces	(PDF)
5	Address Spaces on the x86	(PDF)
Week 4
6	Threads and Context Switching	(PDF)
Week 5
7	Entering and Leaving Kernel	(PDF)
8	Interrupt and Exception Handling on x86	(PDF)
Week 6
9	Process Abstraction and Management	(PDF)
10	Interprocess Communication	(PDF)
Week 7
	Mid-term Quiz
	No Lecture Work on Lab 4
	No Lecture Work on Lab 4
11	Kernel API	(PDF)
12	IPC	(PDF)
Week 8
13	Coordination	(PDF)
14	I/O	(PDF)
Week 9
15	Files and Directories	(PDF)
Week 10
16	Reliable Files and Directories	(PDF)
17	Buffer Cache and DMA	(PDF)
Week 11
18	Scheduling	(PDF)
Week 12
19	Virtual Machines	(PDF)
20	Extensibility	(PDF)
Week 13
21	Operating System Bugs OS Bakeoff Last Day of Classes	(PDF)
Week 14
	Quiz 2

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