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Computer Science Dept.
Boston, MA 02125-3393 USA

Email: jane.deblois'at'umb.edu

Lecturer

Welcome to CS444-01 and CS444-02 Introduction to Operating Systems!

Syllabus (draft) posted 18 Aug

hw0

crude_wc.c used in hw0

Lesson plan, Week1, Day1

Tanenbaum and Bos, slides for ch1 - INTRODUCTION, slides 1-22, 34-41

wikipedia 64-bit word machines

wikipedia client server

wikipedia all protocols by level

wikipedia 64 bit and earlier x86

cat z0.txt cat z1.txt, ls -la, hexdump -C z1.txt, w, top, ps -eF

David Huffman, 1952, slides for implementation of Huffman code for file compression in C

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) chart

wikipedia article on unicode and extended code sets

wikipedia article on bitwise operations

hw1 posted Tues 8 Sept - due Tues 15 Sept - submit to course directory

Comparison of Chapters in T&B to T&W for understanding Scheduled Reading

emacs reference card

hw0.5 coming soon

endian.c with one correction and one expansion

Wikipedia has picture of memory layouts for Endianness

Grammar for C Code from K&R Appendix B

textbk for Grammar, as of 5Feb see internet archive version of Kernighan and Ritchie (K&R) The C Programming Language, 1988, Ap A13 pages 235-239

huffman next

FIELD trip to server rm and Unix lab is Tues Nov 10 (was Oct 30 last semester) last half hour of class

Tue Nov18: wikipedia for Popek and Goldberg, 1974 paper