Operating Systems: Supplementary Readings

• Some undergrad viewgraphs on machine/kernel [pdf]
• Some undergrad viewgraphs on Unix and classical OS [pdf]
• Self Assessment (pdf)
• Some notes on sharing and protection, with links to readings

• Some viewgraphs [PPT, PDF]
• Some notes, with links to readings and sample problems
• [Birrell89] An Introduction to Programming with Threads, by Andrew Birrell, January 1989.
• Why threads are a bad idea

• SIGOPS Hall of Fame for systems papers
• The Creation of the UNIX* Operating System
• [Ritchie74] The Unix Time-Sharing System (postscript), by Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson. Communications of the ACM 17(7), July 1974. Also available in pdf.
• History of Computing Project
• multicians.org

• Hints for computer system design. Butler W. Lampson. Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operatin g Systems Principles, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire (October 10-13, 1983). [summary]
• Worse is better
• Software That Lasts 200 Years. Dan Bricklin.
• Evil Bit for IPv4

• The 1988 Internet Worm [pdf], shorter summary here.
• Netgear's war on the University of Wisconsin