CS 350 - Operating Systems

Reading Materials

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
• Some C background information useful for the assignments.

Textbook Readings and Lecture Notes

• Lecture notes are required for this course.
• Printed and bound notes will be available for purchase from Campus Copy in MC2018.
• Lecture notes (part 1).
• Lecture notes (part 2).
• C Primer slides.
• Context switch example.
• Synchronization example.
• System call example.
• Page table example.
• Assignment 2a review.
• Assignment 2b review.
• Paging flowchart.
• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
  Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
  This is not a required text but it is a good source for readings on material covered in class. The parts of this book are available online for free, you can get an e-copy for about $10 or hard copies for a good price. The links included below point to the individual chapters.
  NOTE: Some of the API's used in this text are different from those used in our class but it should usually be pretty easy to translate between the two.

In the table below, the column labeled "Silberschatz" refers to chapters in the 8th Edition of Operating System Concepts, by Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne (John Wiley and Sons), which was formerly used as a textbook for this course. Although we are no longer using it, we've left the Silberschatz chapter references in the table for the benefit of those who may have copies of that text. Unless you already have a copy of the Silberschatz text, we recommend Three Easy Pieces.