CS 350 - Reading Materials

Text Book

Operating System Concepts, 8th Edition. Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne. John Wiley and Sons, 2009 (6th and 7th editions are also fine).

On reserve in the DC library for 3 hour loan. Call number: QA76.76.O63 P475x 2009.
7th edition also on reserve in the DC library. Call number: QA76.76.O63 P475x 2005 or call number: UWD 1631.

Authors' web page, including a link to errata.
Publisher's web page, claims to include practice study questions.
Student companion site, with solutions to practice exercises.

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

Lecture notes are required for this course.
Printed and bound notes are available for purchase from Campus Copy in MC2018.
Full set of notes with page numbers.
Lecture notes for 31/3/2011:
Current Topics (2-up, 1-up)

Subject	Text Readings	2up Notes	1up Notes
Introduction; Background and Overview	Chapters 1-2	2-up	1-up
Threads	N/A (see the Intro by Birrell above)	2-up	1-up
Synchronization	Chapters 3 (3.4.1), 6 (excluding 6.8), and 7	2-up	1-up
Processes, The Kernel, and System Calls	Chapters 2 (2.3 and 2.4), and 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 11.8-11.9)	2-up	1-up
Interprocess Communication and Networking	Chapter 3 (3.4-3.6)	2-up	1-up