P001 Operating Systems

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2001
Extent and Intensity
3/0. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Ing. Jan Staudek, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Ing. Jan Staudek, CSc.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. Ing. Jan Staudek, CSc.
Timetable
Wed 11:00–13:50 D2, Wed 11:00–13:50 D1
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • Computer system overview, registers, instruction execution, interrupts, memory hierarchy, cache memory. Operating system overview, OS architecture.
  • Example systems (UNIX, MS-DOS, WINDOWS NT), user interfaces, OS services, architectures.
  • Process description and control, concurrency, mutal ecxlusion and synchronization, deadlock and starvation.
  • Memory management, logical and physical address space. Virtual memory, hardware and control structures, replacement algorithms.
  • I/O management, disk scheduling, file management.
  • Uniprocessor scheduling, scheduling algorithms, multiprocessor and real-time scheduling.
Literature
  • Operating systems concepts (objednáno). ISBN 0-471-36486-X. info
  • SILBERSCHATZ, Abraham, Peter Baer GALVIN and Greg GAGNE. Applied operating system concepts. 1st ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000, xviii, 840. ISBN 0-471-36508-4. info
  • STALLINGS, William. Operating systems. 2nd ed. London: Prentice-Hall International, 1995, xviii, 701. ISBN 0-13-180977-6. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
písemná zkouška
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 1996, Spring 1997, Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2002.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2001, recent)
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