QMCS 360

Operating Systems Design

Dr. Rick Smith

Quantitative Methods
and
Computer Science

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last update: Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Course Announcements

No office hours on Wednesday, November 30. I have an IRB meeting.

Course Materials

Assignments

Written responses and other materials shall be handed in at the beginning of class.

Number
Description
Points
Date Due
H1 1. Read all of Chapter 1. Be prepared to talk about interrupts and DMA (what does that stand for?)
2. Problems from Chapter 1, pp38-39: 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
10 Tue, 9/13
H2 Problem from Chapter 1: p. 39, 1.6 10 Thu, 9/15
Q1 Brief QUIZ on Chapter 3 "Review Questions" 10 Tue, 9/20
H3 Read Chapters 2 and 3. Problems from 3: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 10 Thu, 9/22
H4 Problem 3.9 4 Tue, 9/27
Q2 Another QUIZ on Chapter 3 "Review Questions" 10 Thu, 9/29
H5 Problem 4.1, 4.2 on p. 199 10 Thu, 10/6
H6 Answer and hand in "Review Questions" on p. 248: 5.2, 5.3, 5.5, 5.7, 5.8, 5.10 24 Tue, 10/11
H7 Problems 6.1, 6.3 8 Tue, 10/18
Q3 Quiz on Review Questions 6.1 through 6.7 10 Thu, 10/20
H8 Problems 7.1, 7.1 on p. 323 8 Tue, 10/25
Q4 Quiz on Review Questions 7.1 through 7.9 10 Thu, 10/27
H9 Problem 8.5, p. 384, but do it for both FIFO and LRU 8 Tue, 11/8
H10 Software simulation of a scheduling algorithm based on Probs 9.1, 9.2 20 TBD
P3 Project Outline 26 Thu 12/1
P4 Final Project
EXAM 
DAY

Class Notes

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