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92806 Operating Systems, Principles and Practice
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Danish title: Operativsystemer, principper og praksis
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| Type: Å, Language: E |
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Credit points:
5 point |
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| Offered by:
Department of Applied Electronics
(IAE) |
| No credit points with: D4493 |
| Prerequisite: 92032 |
| Recommended semester:
5th or 6th semester |
| Scope and form: Class lectures and group work. |
| Examination:
Oral exam
(13 point scale
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| Remarks: In this course there will be used a learning system, where all the participants one at a time teach one of the subjects, followed by discussions and teachers comments |
| Contact person: |
Thorkild Larsen, IAE, Building 451, Tel. +45 4525 5283 |
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Aim: To give the student a view byond the world of DOS/Windows.
To give the student the theory and the techniques used for software for large computers, especially their operating systems: process management strategies, memory management strategies, protection and security; distributed systems.
To give the student knowledge of operating systems for large computers with 1 or more CPUs. |
Contents: Introduction to operating systems, general computer- and operating systems.
Principles for process management: parallel processes, scheduling, synchronisation and deadlock. Principles for memory management, logical contra physical memory addresses, allocation, paging, segmentation. File systems and background memories.
Principles for protection and security in operating systems.
Principles for distributed systems: network structures, distributed operating systems and distributed file systems.
Examples of current operating systems: UNIX, OS/2, WindowsNT and more. |
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