CS 4118 Operating Systems

Instructor: Abhinav Kamra

Spring 2005

Announcements

Date Announcement
2nd May, 2005 Super Demo Day II on 5th and 6th of May. Slots can be reserved here.
7th Apr, 2005 Quiz 4 from chapters 10-14(6th edition) on Tue, 19th of Apr.
3rd Apr, 2005 Assignment 3 has been posted. Demo date 4th of May.
29th Mar, 2005 Slots can be reserved for the Super Demo Day here.
23rd Mar, 2005 Tomorrow's class cancelled.
21st Mar, 2005 Super Demo Day on Fri, Apr 1st in MRL.
21st Mar, 2005 Quiz 3 postponed to Tue, Mar 29th.
8th Mar, 2005 Quiz 2 papers can be collected from the TAs during their office hours. Look here to see which TA to go to.
3rd Mar, 2005 Quiz from chapters 7,8,9(6th edition) and 6,7,8(7th edition) on Thu, 24th of Mar. Happy Midterms and Spring Holidays.
25th Feb, 2005 Assignment 2 has been posted. Due 4th of Mar.
20th Feb, 2005 Assignment 1 deadline has been extended. It is now due Friday, 25th of Feb.
17th Feb, 2005 For an excellent tutorial on Inter-process Communication, see the Reference page.
17th Feb, 2005 A new assignment section has been added. Please make sure you form groups for assignment 3 and notify Pinxing.
12th Feb, 2005 Assignment 1 has been posted. Due 23rd of Feb.
10th Feb, 2005 Quiz from chapters 1,2,3,4,5,6,7(6th edition) and 1,2,3,4,5,6(7th edition) on Tue, 22nd Feb.
10th Feb, 2005 A discussion board had been created for everyone to discuss the queries (especially assignment related) they have with the rest of the class. If you're looking for partners for the assignments then the discussion board is an easy way to do that. To access the discussion board, login to your courseworks account and click on Discussion in the left frame.
9th Feb, 2005 Quiz 1 papers can be collected from the TAs during their office hours. Look here to see which TA to go to.
7th Feb, 2005 Please form 1-3 member groups for the assignments and email to Pinxing.
31st Jan, 2005 New VMWare and OSKit help on the reference page.
27th Jan, 2005 Quiz from chapters 1,2,3,4(6th edition) and 1,2,3(7th edition) on Thursday, 3rd of Frbruary.
19th Jan, 2005 Office Hours have been posted. See the help page. If you have a query, you can drop by my (or the TAs') office at any time.
19th Jan, 2005 TAs for the class have been discovered!! See the help page.
1st Jan, 2005 The Text book for the course would be the sixth edition of "Operating Systems Concepts" by Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne. Any other "OS Concepts" book by the same authors would also work.
1st Jan, 2005 Hello and Welcome to Operating Systems, Spring 2005 !!