CS 350 - Reading Materials

Text Book

Operating System Concepts, 7th Edition. Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne. John Wiley and Sons, 2004.
On reserve in the DC library, call number: QA76.76.O63 P475X 2005 (3 hour loan), or call number: UWD 1631 (3 hour loan)
Authors' web page, including errata (PDF)
Publisher's web page, claims to include practice study questions

A Collection of Tutorials and Useful Information

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.
An Introduction to Programming with Threads, by Andrew Birrell

Textbook Readings and Lecture Notes

Hard copies of the lecture notes are available for purchase at Pixel Planet (MC2018)

Subject	Text Readings	2up Notes	1up Notes
Introduction; Background and Overview	Chapters 1-2	2-up	1-up
Threads	N/A	2-up	1-up
Synchronization	Chapters 3 (3.4.1), 6 (excluding 6.9), and 7	2-up	1-up
Processes, The Kernel, and System Calls	Chapters 2 (2.3 and 2.4), 3 (3.1-3.3)	2-up	1-up
Virtual Memory	Chapters 8-9	2-up	1-up
Scheduling	Chapter 5	2-up	1-up
I/O	Chapters 12-13	2-up	1-up
File Systems	Chapters 10-11 (excluding 11.9, 11.10)	2-up	1-up
Interprocess Communication and Networking	Chapter 3 (3.4-3.6)	2-up	1-up
Security	Chapters 14-15	2-up	1-up