Operating Systems slides

Operating Systems

taught by Dr. Ken Williams

Text Book: The textbook for COMP450 Operating Systems is

“Operating Systems: Internals & Design Principles, 4^th edition” by William Stallings, Prentice Hall, 2001, ISBN: 0130319996

Notes

Slides on an Overview of Operating Systems Slides on a Review of Computer Hardware Slides on the History of Operating Systems Slides on Processes Slides on Threads Slides on Concurrent Threads Slides on Thread Interaction Slides on Concurrent Programming Constructs Multimedia slides on Concurrent Programming Constructs Slides on Creating Threads Slides on Message Passing Slides on Atomic Access Slides on Shells Slides on Scheduling Slides on Scheduling Algorithms Notes on Multiprocessor Scheduling Notes on Deadlock Notes on Queuing Theory Slides on Memory Management Slides on Memory Management Algorithms Slides on Paged Memory Systems Slides on Virtual Memory Notes on Virtual Memory Address Translation Nice explanation of Virtual Memory More on Virtual Memory Slides on I/O Hardware Slides on I/O Management Slides on File Systems Notes on Computer Protection Notes on Security Slides on Security and Encryption Slides on Object Security Notes of System Performance Notes on Network Layers

Utilities for Minix

Instructions for installing Minix. Explanation of Minix memory management

mtools allows you to read and write DOS formatted diskettes from Minix. Documentation is available for installing mtools.

Examples

Consumer Producer program in C using POSIX pthreads

Buffer Allocation problem

Semaphore implementation in Java

Solutions to concurrent programs