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Operating Systems

Operating Systems. CS 3013. Topics. Background Admin Stuff Motivation Objectives Operating Systems!. Professor Background. Dr. Mark Claypool (professor, “Mark”) Systems guy operating systems distributed systems collaborative systems (multimedia performance)

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Operating Systems

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  1. Operating Systems CS 3013

  2. Topics • Background • Admin Stuff • Motivation • Objectives • Operating Systems!

  3. Professor Background • Dr. Mark Claypool (professor, “Mark”) • Systems guy • operating systems • distributed systems • collaborative systems • (multimedia performance) • TRS-DOS, MS-DOS, Win95, Solaris • WindowsNT and Linux

  4. Student Background • Who are you? • Name • Class (freshman, junior …) • Major (CS, EE, Basket Weaving ...) • C experience • Linux experience • Operating Systems? • Other

  5. Syllabus Stuff • http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/courses/3013-A00/ • TAs: Hari Kannan, Jae Chung • Office hours: (TBD, see Web page) • Email • Text Book

  6. Course Structure • Prerequisites • C programming (must) • Machine organization (recommended) • Unix (recommended) • Grading • Homework (10%) • Exams (50%) • Projects (40%) • Attendance (100% … kidding)

  7. Homework • “Paper” problems • Designed to get you ready for exam • Stress ideas taught in class • (Oh yeah, do come to class) • Not done in groups

  8. Exams • 2 exams • 50% of grade • Non-cumulative • Closed-note • Closed-book • Closed-friend • Cheat-sheet?

  9. Projects • 4 projects (well, sorta 5) • Implementation in Linux! • “Fossil Lab” • Groups! • Group names to Tas • Assign root password • Project 0 • admin, tools, kernel ...

  10. Slides • On the Web • PPT and PDF • “Today’s Slides” • Say, 12:00-12:30 • Will send email • Caution! Don’t rely upon the slides alone! Use them as supplementary material • (come to class)

  11. Why This Class? • WPI CS requirements • “core course” for majors • Combines CS concepts • algorithms, languages, data-structures, hardware • system design w/tradeoffs • Better use of the computer • C programming in Unix environment • Networks, Distributed Computing Systems, WebWare • Fun!

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