Introduction to System Software, Fall 2003

Lectures are at 12:30 Monday Wednesday and Friday in Room 110 MacLean Hall.

Mon Aug 25 Introduction

Wed Aug 27 Chapter 2, Assemblers

Fri Aug 29 -- grammar and parsers

Mon Sep 1 [Labor Day, no class!]

Wed Sep 3 -- lexical analysis

Fri Sep 5 Chapter 3, Symbol Tables

Mon Sep 8 -- hashing [last free drop]

Wed Sep 10 Chapter 4, Forward References

Fri Sep 12 -- chaining

Mon Sep 15 Chapter 5, Extending the Example [last add]

Wed Sep 17 -- expressions

Fri Sep 19 -- compilers

Mon Sep 22 Chapter 6, Conditonal Assembly

Wed Sep 24 -- Macro Assembly

Fri Sep 26 Chapter 7, Linkers and Loaders

Mon Sep 29 -- Linkers and Libraries

Wed Oct 1 Chapter 8, Command Languages

Fri Oct 3 Midterm Exam I

Mon Oct 6 [Yom Kippur, no class!]

Wed Oct 8 -- Scripts

Fri Oct 10 Chapter 9, Sequential Devices

Mon Oct 13 -- Device Independence and Direct Memory Access

Wed Oct 15 Chapter 10, I/O Queues

Fri Oct 17 -- Interrupts and Critical Sections

Mon Oct 20 Chapter 11, Disks

Wed Oct 22 -- Disk Drivers

Fri Oct 24 -- Disk Scheduling Policies

Mon Oct 27 Chapter 12, File Systems

Wed Oct 29 -- File Access

Fri Oct 31 -- Directory Management

Mon Nov 3 Chapter 13, Virtual Memory [last undergrad drop]

Wed Nov 5 -- Page Fault Service

Fri Nov 7 -- Page Replacement Policies

Mon Nov 10 Chapter 14, Dynamic Storage Allocation

Wed Nov 12 Midterm Exam II

Fri Nov 14 -- The Buddy System

Mon Nov 17 -- Boundary Tags [spring preregistration begins]

Wed Nov 19 Chapter 15, Calling Sequences

Fri Nov 21 -- Coroutines and Processes

Mon Nov 24 [Thanksgiving break]

Wed Nov 26 [Thanksgiving break]

Fri Nov 28 [Thanksgiving break]

Mon Dec 1 Chapter 16, Schedulers

Wed Dec 3 -- Premption and Priority

Fri Dec 5 Chapter 17, Concurrent Programming

Mon Dec 8 -- Classic Problems

Wed Dec 10 Chapter 18, Security and Protection

Fri Dec 12 Review

Final Exam

Mon Dec 15, 7:00 PM [ugh!]