| Text: | Operating Systems
H. M. Deitel
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| Topics: | What is an Operating System?,
Hardware, Software, Firmware,
Processes, Asynchronous concurrent Processes, Concurrent Programming, Deadlock, Real and virtual storage organization and management, Job and processor scheduling, Disk performance, Coprocessors and RISC, Distributed computing, Security |
| Grade: | There will be two in-class
exams and a final. The in-class exams will each count 20%, the final will
count 35%. There will be
some number of other assignments that will comprise the remaining 25% of the final grade. |
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