22C:116, Advanced Operating Systems, Fall 2001

12:30 Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 110 MLH

Index

• Lecture Schedule and Notes
• Homework Assignments
• Policies and Grading

Additional Sources of Information

• The textbook: Tannenbaum's Modern Operating Systems (2^nd edition)
• My previous offerings of the course:
  Fall 1995
  Spring 1997
  Fall 1997
  Fall 1998
  Spring 1999
  Fall 1999
  Fall 2000

• User Level Threads -- a thread manager that can be incorporated into C (or C++) programs.

• Plan 9 -- a distributed and largely UNIX compatable programming environment developed at Bell Labs. The man pages are a useful resource.

• System Software Research is Irrelevant -- a pesimistic view of the field.

• BeOS -- A new OS from Be Inc.

• The Linux home page (University of North Carolina)