Operating Systems

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In this course, you will study the principles of modern operating systems, which essentially manage a collection of concurrent processes. Thinking about concurrency is fundamentally different than thinking about the relatively simple serial processes that you will have considered up to this point. Therefore, we spend quite a bit of time initially studying synchronization primitives and their application to specific problems. Then the remainder of the course is centered around a large project in which students actually write significant portions of a working operating system. Through this project and the accompanying classroom material, you will study process synchronization and scheduling, resource management, memory management and virtual memory, and file systems.

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