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	1-up ps, 2-up ps, 2-up pdf
Processes and Threads	Chapters 3 (3.1-3.3) and 4	1-up ps, 2-up ps, 2-up pdf
Example of a System Call (Nachos)	None	1-up ps, 2-up ps, 2-up pdf
Synchronization	Chapters 3 (3.4, pp. 96-98), 6 (excluding 6.9), and 7	1-up ps, 2-up ps, 2-up pdf
Memory Management	Chapter 8	1-up ps, 2-up ps, 2-up pdf
Nachos	None	1-up ps, 2-up ps, 2-up pdf
Virtual Memory	Chapter 9 (excluding 9.8)	1-up ps, 2-up ps, 2-up pdf
Scheduling	Chapter 5	1-up ps, 2-up ps, 2-up pdf
I/O	Chapters 12-13 (excluding 12.8)	1-up ps, 2-up ps, 2-up pdf
File Systems	Chapters 10-11 (excluding 11.9, 11.10)	1-up ps, 2-up ps, 2-up pdf
Interprocess Communication and Networking	Chapter 3 (3.4-3.6)	1-up ps, 2-up ps, 2-up pdf
Security	Chapters 14-15	1-up ps, 2-up ps, 2-up pdf