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| Offered by:
Department of Information Technology
(IT) |
| Prerequisite: 49275/C4336 |
| Desirable: 49270/C4334 |
| Recommended semester:
7th - 9th semester |
| Limitation: Max. 40 |
| Scope and form: Lectures. 1 afternoon per week with exercises. Written assignment. |
| Examination:
Evaluation of report(s)
(13 point scale
) |
| Remarks: The course will be offered for the first time in autumn 1998. |
| Contact person: |
Jørgen Stensgaard-Madsen, IT, Building 343, Tel. +45 4525 3732 |
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Aim: Students should obtain an understanding of concepts that are central and characteristic for computer operating systems and be able to use them, for instance in accounts for central aspects of an elected system or in comments to a suggested solution for a given problem.
Students should obtain experience from localising, studying and possibly modifying the handling of problems in a concrete operating system. |
| Contents: The following topics will be presented: the history of operating systems, processes, supervision and control of user processes, coordination and synchronisation, allocation of resources, device handlers, file systems, protection and security, networks, distributed and real-time systems. |
