22C:112 (CS:3620), Operating Systems

Index

• Lecture Schedule and Notes
• Homework Assignments
• Policies and Grading
• Official ISIS course details: 22C:112:001 (CS:3620:0001),

Additional Sources of Information

• The textbook: Refer to lecture notes.
  Auxiliary text: Kernighan and Ritchie, The C Programming Lanugage

• Previous offerings of 22C:112 Operating Systems
  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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