CSCI 4320 (Principles of Operating Systems):
Lecture Summaries

• August 30: About the course.
• September 4: A short history of operating systems.
• September 6: Review of hardware functionality (what's provided, what's needed).
• September 11: No class.
• September 13: Review of hardware functionality, continued; overview of operating system concepts (what abstractions and functionality to provide).
• September 18: Operating system structures; processes (abstraction and implementation); threads.
• September 20: Interprocess communication; the mutual-exclusion problem.
• September 25: Semaphores.
• September 27: Monitors; message-passing.
• October 2: The dining philophers problem.
• October 4: Scheduling.
• October 9: Scheduling, continued.
• October 11: Scheduling, continued.
• October 16: Deadlocks.
• October 18: Exam 1.
• October 23: No class.
• October 25: Memory management, introduction.
• October 30: Memory management, continued.
• November 1: Memory management, continued.
• November 6: Memory management, continued.
• November 8: Memory management, continued.
• November 13: Input/output.
• November 15: Input/output, continued.
• November 20: Files and file systems.
• November 27: Files and file systems, continued.
• November 29: Files and file systems, continued.
• December 4: Exam 2.
• December 6: Security.
• December 11: Course wrap-up; evaluations.