Tentative Schedule for CPS 210 Operating Systems - Spring 1999

Tuesday Thursday
January 14
19 Lecture notes 21 Chap. 1-3 in 4.4BSD book
Lecture notes
26 Read Lampson's "Hints" &
Drave's "Directions"
Lecture notes
28 Lecture notes
February 2 Lecture notes 4 Read: Lottery Scheduling,
Scheduler Activations
Lecture notes
9 Lecture notes
Read:Threads
11 assignment 1 due at 12 am (ps)
Lecture notes
16 Lecture notes18 Lecture notes
23 25 OSDI - Ken's lecture
March 24 Lecture notes
9 Lecture notes11 Midterm to take home
due Friday Mar 12 at noon
Read 4.4BSD Chap. 6-8
16 Spring Break18 Spring Break
23 assignment 2 due at 12 am
Read 4.4BSD Chap 9 (ps)
25
30 April 1
68
1315
20 22

Final exam scheduled: Thursday May 6, 9-noon.

Xfs! Ken's second lecture in microsoft html. If you want to print it please print this ps file to save paper!


William J. Bolosky, Richard P. Draves, Robert P. Fitzgerald, Christopher W. Fraser, Michael B. Jones, Todd B. Knoblock, and Rick Rashid. Operating System Directions for the Next Millennium. January 1997.

Butler Lampson, "Hints for Computer System Design ", SOSP, 1983.


Waldspurger and Weihl, Lottery Scheduling: Flexible Proportional-Share Resource Management, OSDI, 1994.

Tom Anderson, Brian Bershad, Ed Lazowska and Hank Levy, Scheduler Activations ACM TOCS 10(1), Feb 1992.


Andrew Birrell, "An Introduction to Programming with Threads" [Compressed PostScript]


Readings on cooperative caching and GMS


Exams from Previous Semesters of CPS210
Last updated 10-Mar-99

CPS 210