15-410, Operating System Design and Implementation

Welcome to the Spring 2008 edition of 15-410.

Mid-term exam is Thursday, Feb. 28, from 6:30pm to 9:30pm in Wean 7500.

The textbook is Operating System Concepts, by Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne. It is available in CMU's bookstore. While the official text will be the new seventh edition, you can probably get by with the sixth or even maybe the fifth. We will not cover all of the text, and some topics (such as synchronization) will be taught in a different manner.

You may also find useful the 15-213 textbook, Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective; the K&R C book; and perhaps C Traps and Pitfalls. An excellent source of suggestions for programming style and structure is Rob Pike and Brian Kernigan's The Practice of Programming, especially the first few chapters.

Until the semester actually begins, here is a self-assessment/warm-up exercise. This exercise is mandatory for incoming 410 students who have not passed 15-213 and is not a bad way for all incoming students to get back up to speed.

[Last modified Monday February 25, 2008]