CS 350 - Reading Materials

Text Book

Operating System Concepts, 7th Edition. Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne. John Wiley and Sons, 2004.
Authors' web page, including errata (PDF)
Publisher's web page, claims to include practice study questions

Tutorials on C++, Gdb, etc.
Assemblers, Linkers and the SPIM simulator.
This provides excellent information on the MIPS hardware/software interface. Including stack frames, procedure calls, exceptions, interrupts, etc.

Subject	Text Readings	Notes
Introduction; Background and Overview	Chapters 1-2	2-up
Processes and Threads	Chapters 3 (3.1-3.3) and 4	2-up pthreads-ex.c
NachOS	None	2-up
C Primer	None	2-up mem.c write.c addr.c
Synchronization	Chapters 3 (3.4, pp. 96-98), 6 (excluding 6.9), and 7	2-up
Memory Management	Chapter 8	2-up
Virtual Memory	Chapter 9	2-up
Scheduling	Chapter 5	2-up
I/O	Chapters 12-13	2-up
File Systems	Chapters 10-11 (excluding 11.9, 11.10)	2-up
Interprocess Communication and Networking	Chapter 3 (3.4-3.6)	2-up
Security	Chapters 14-15	2-up