CS:3620, Operating Systems

Spring 2018

Professor: Douglas W. Jones 201H MLH, Office Hours 1:30-2:30 MWF
Assistant: Raghav Kandula? 101N MLH, Hours 11:30-1:00 Tu, 9:30-11:00 Th
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Department of Computer Science

11:30 Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 118 MLH.

The textbook: Refer to lecture notes.
Auxiliary text: Kernighan and Ritchie, The C Programming Lanugage
Previous offerings of CS:3620 (22C:112) Operating Systems
Fall 2013
Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Spring 2011
Spring 2010
Spring 2009
Spring 2008
Previous offerings of 22C:116 Advanced Operating Systems
Fall 1995
Spring 1997
Fall 1997
Fall 1998
Spring 1999
Fall 1999
Fall 2000
Fall 2001
Spring2002
Fall2002
A vi tutorial -- Help with the vi editor for beginners.
A Unix tutorial -- Help with Unix/Linux for beginners.
A manual of Style for C Programmers -- This has some useful hints about applying decent software engineering methodology in a language that, at first blush, appears to offer little support for such methodology.
User Level Threads -- a thread manager that can be incorporated into C (or C++) programs.
System Software Research is Irrelevant -- a pesimistic view of the field.
Plan 9 -- a distributed and largely UNIX compatable programming environment developed at Bell Labs. The man pages are a useful resource.
Timeline of Unix, Linux and variant history A cursory overview of the history
The History of the Unix Operating System in some depth, with a Bell Labs bias.
Dennis M. Ritchie's history of Unix
Ubuntu Linux for the IBM PC and compatibles (free software, a good way to reuse old Windows boxes).
The Raspberry Pi A $35 Linux system, with an ARM CPU, Raspbian Linux, dual USB + HDMI port.

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