CPSC 3380 - Operating Systems

Three hours lecture. Three credit hours.

An exploration of the hardware designs, data structures, and algorithms that inform operating-system design. Topics include hardware privilege levels and their interaction with privileged software instructions, process creation and management, scheduling algorithms, security aspects, multithreading/concurrency, data consistency implications of asynchronous systems.

Prerequisites: CPSC 2376 or equivalent and MATH 2310 or equivalent.