CS 450 - Operating Systems

Unit(s): 4 Lecture: 4 hours

This course covers the fundamental concepts of operating system design and implementation; the study of problems, goals, and methods of concurrent programming; and the fundamentals of systems programming. Topics include resource-management, process and thread scheduling algorithms, inter-process communication, I/O subsystems and device-drivers, memory management including virtual memory, segmentation, and page-replacement policies. These topics will be covered in theory and in practice through the study of the source-code of a working operating system.

Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or better in CS 252 and CS 315, or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Grading: GRD