EEN521 (Operating Systems) Autumn 2002

• Old syllabus for the course
  New syllabus to appear soon, it will be very similar.
• Downloads: Software to make programs work
• The book
• vi editor cheat-sheets as Word .doc and as Normal HTML
• Review of Virtual Memory
• Information concerning the emulator:
  • List of modifications made
  • Processor and Instruction Set: (html) or (word doc).
  • New convenient "exe" command, see docs for details.
• How programs interact with the operating system and device drivers
• The assignment parts:
  1. Implement virtual memory
  2. Implement a user-level keyboard input system (see this note)
  3. Either implement multi-processing (something like fork) OR a file system.
• Information on the compiler, and changes.
  Note: It turns out that there is already an obscure command called 'cmp'. you will need to do one of the following: rename cmp, use the command ./cmp to run it, or edit your path so that . appears first.
• Combined emulator and compiler information.
• Mid-Term: Tuesday 29th October 2002, 5pm to 6.15pm.
• Final Examination: Thursday 12th December, 5pm to 7pm.