Computer Science 377 - Operating Systems
Fall
2021
01
4.00
Mark Corner
TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM
UMass Amherst
12469
Thompson Hall room 106
mcorner@cs.umass.edu
The design and operation of modern computer operating systems. Review of capabilities of typical computer hardware. Topics include command language interpreter (the shell), processes, concurrency, inter-process communication, linking and loading, memory management, transactions, file systems, distributed systems, security, and protection. Programming projects in Java and C.
Open to Senior and Junior Computer Science majors only. COMPSCI 230 w/C STUDENTS NEEDING SPECIAL PERMISSION MUST REQUEST OVERRIDES VIA THE ON-LINE FORM: https://www.cics.umass.edu/overrides.
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.