CS321 - Operating Systems - 2007

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Your Project 2 final code is due at midnight on Wedesday, May 2. Be ready to show your project off in-class on Friday, May 4.
HW9 is due Monday, May 7.
The Final Exam will be held Wednesday, May 9 in the usual classroom (Chapman 106) starting at 10:15am.
Lecture Notes:
- 04_30_gui_other, Other roads to GUI development modified 2007-04-30
- 04_23_windows, GUI Programming and Windows modified 2007-04-23
- 04_20_survey_other, Other Operating Systems modified 2007-04-20
- 04_18_survey_unix, UNIX: One OS To Rule Them All modified 2007-04-18
- 04_16_survey_windows, OS History--DOS and Windows modified 2007-04-18
- 04_13_databases, Databases and SQL modified 2007-04-13
- 04_11_xml, XML: eXtensible Markup Language modified 2007-04-10
- 04_09_mediaformat, Media and Nesting File Formats modified 2007-04-09
- 04_06_network, Network Clients and Servers modified 2007-04-06
- 04_02_network, TCP/IP Networking modified 2007-04-05
- 03_30_malloc2, Memory Allocation Errors & History modified 2007-03-30
- 03_26_malloc, Heap Memory Allocation modified 2007-03-28
- 03_19_memmap, Memory Mapping modified 2007-03-21
- 03_09_biocomputing, Biological Computing modified 2007-03-09
- 03_05_review, Mid-Semester Course Review modified 2007-03-05
- 02_28_directories, Directories modified 2007-02-28
- 02_26_partitions, Partitions and the Partition Table modified 2007-02-26
- 02_21_fat_fs, Details of Disks and Filesystems: File Allocation Table (FAT) modified 2007-02-21
- 02_19_filesystems, Binary I/O and Filesystems modified 2009-08-05
- 02_16_redirection, I/O Redirection and the Beauty of the Command Line modified 2007-02-16
- 02_14_permissions, Strange Things You Can Do With Files modified 2007-02-19
- 02_09_io, File I/O in C++, C, UNIX, and Windows modified 2007-02-08
- 02_07_parallel, Parallelism in Practice modified 2007-02-08
- 02_05_initializer_mbrot, C Initializer Syntax, and the Mandelbrot Set modified 2007-02-05
- 02_02_thread_why, Threads: Why and Why Not modified 2007-02-05
- 01_31_threadsafe, Kernel Threads, and "Thread Safety" modified 2007-01-31
- 01_29_threads, Processes, Threads, Functions modified 2007-01-29
- 01_26_signals, Signals modified 2007-01-26
- 01_24_createprocess, Creating Processes, Threads, etc. modified 2008-11-03
- 01_22_process, Processes modified 2007-01-22
- 01_19_syscalls, System Calls modified 2007-01-18
- 01_17_intro, Course Introduction and OS Overview modified 2007-03-05
Blackboard is where some assignments will be posted.
Course syllabus includes dates to remember, the grading policy, and a course outline.

Schedule

Here are the topics we'll be covering in the remaining weeks in the semester:

April 2-6: Network communication, network clients and servers, and HTTP
April 9-13: Data storage beyond files: XML, Media Containers, SQL Databases
April 16-20: OS Survey: Windows, OS/2, DOS, Mac OS 9, OS X, SGI IRIX, BeOS, and Plan9
April 23-27: GUI Programming basics, win32 specifics
April 30-May 2: GUI Toolkits: Qt, CGI
May 4: 2-minute project micropresentations
May 7: Review for final
May 9: Final exam

Documentation

If you haven't written x86 assembly, read my NASM x86 cheat sheet or the NASM Docs, in particular the x86 Instruction List. The CS 301 site is useful too, especially the 301 lecture notes.
A good survey of BIOS functions for 16-bit DOS mode prepared for UNESCO from a university in Vietnam.
Ralph Brown's Interrupt List is the definitive reference for all x86 16-bit interrupt functions. See just the BIOS interrupts, like the TELETYPE output interrupt.

Meeting time: 10:30-11:30am
Room 106 Chapman Building
University of Alaska Fairbanks

UAF CS F321-F01
3.0 Credits, Spring 2007
Prerequisite: CS 301 (Asm)

Instructor: Dr. O. Lawlor
ffosl@uaf.edu, 474-7678
Office: 210C Chapman
Hours: noon-1pm MWF, by appointment, or just drop by!

O. Lawlor, ffosl@uaf.edu
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