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	Tablet PC version	Course Notes Covered
Introduction; Background and Overview	Chapters 1-2	2-up	1-up	All
Processes and Threads	Chapters 3 (3.1-3.3) and 4	2-up	1-up	All
NachOS	None	2-up	1-up	All
C Primer	None	2-up mem.c write.c addr.c	1-up	All
Synchronization	Chapters 3 (3.4, pp. 96-98), 6 (excluding 6.9), and 7	2-up	1-up	All
Memory Management	Chapter 8	2-up	1-up	All
Virtual Memory	Chapter 9	2-up	1-up	All
Scheduling	Chapter 5	2-up	1-up	All
I/O	Chapters 12-13	2-up	1-up	All
File Systems	Chapters 10-11 (excluding 11.9, 11.10)	2-up	1-up	All
Interprocess Communication and Networking	Chapter 3 (3.4-3.6)	2-up	1-up	Slides 1,5-7,26-32
Security	Chapters 14-15	2-up	1-up	Slides 1-4,7-14