CS 551: Operating Systems Design and Implementation

Objectives

• This course introduces the students to the fundamental principles of operating systems design, and gives them hands-on experience with operating systems installation, design and implementation.
• The students apply what they learned about operating systems design to practical implementation, by modifying and extending the MINIX Operating System.
• MS Windows XP and LINUX are briefly discussed as case studies.

Prerequisites

• CS 450.

Syllabus

• Introduction
• OS history
• MINIX and MINIX installation
• Processes
• MINIX Processes, booting, messages, interrupts and system calls, IPC
• Scheduling
• MINIX clock, clock task, and clock handler
• MINIX system task
• I/O hardware, I/O software
• MINIX I/O, MINIX terminals, and MINIX terminal driver
• MINIX memory management, fork, exit, wait, exec
• MINIX file system, block cache, i-node, super-block, and file descriptor management
• MINIX Block Devices, MINIX RAM Disk, and MINIX Hard Disk
• Case Studies: MS Windows XP, Linux
• Projects/Presentations

Edited March 2006 (html, css checks)