Syllabus

Operating Systems
Spring 2024
Chien Chin Chen
Department of Information Management

National Taiwan University
Glass Information (1/2)
 Instructor:
 陳建錦 (Chien Chin Chen)
 Office: Mgmt II 414.
 E-mail: [email protected]
 Teaching assistants:
 林聖傑 <[email protected]>
 楊代如 <[email protected]>
 陳冠甫 <[email protected]>
 Class time: 9:10pm ~ 12:10pm, every Tue.
 Location: Mgmt II Room 206.
 Class notes: NTU COOL

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Glass Information (2/2)
 Text book:
 Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and
Greg Gagne, "Operating System Concepts,"
John Wiley & Sons, 10th edition, 2021.
 東華書局 , tel: 2311-4027
 Andrew S. Tanenbaum, “Modern Operating

Systems,” Pearson Higher Education, 4/E, 2014.
 高立圖書 , tel: 2290-0318
 Grading:
 Attendance: each miss call costs 3%!!
 Homework (at least 3 times): 30%.
 Midterm: 35%, on 4/9/2024.
 Final: 35%, on 6/4/2024. 3
Homework Policy
 Please submit your homework via COOL before
the class on the due date.
 Late homework would not get any credit.
 Students who copy (or copied) other's homework will

not get any credit.
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Preface (1/7)
 Operating systems are an essential part of any computer
system.
 As an intermediary between the computer user and the
computer hardware.
 Prevalent and changing rapidly.
 Mainframes, PCs, handheld devices, cell phone, …
 This course presents an introduction of operating systems.

 We will cover the concepts and algorithms that underlie
operating systems.
 The concepts and algorithms covered in the book are often
based on those used in existing commercial operating
systems.
 Particular attention is paid to the Microsoft family of
operating systems and various versions of UNIX/Linux.
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Preface (2/7)
 The content of the text correspond to the
suggestions from computing curricula 2001
for teaching operating system.
 Published by the Joint Task Force of the IEEE
Computing Society and Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM).
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Preface (3/7)
 The course will cover the following parts:
 Overview: chapters 1 (introduction) and 2 (system
structures) explain:
 What operating systems are,
 What they do,
 How they are designed and constructed.
 The common features.
 The presentation is motivational and explanatory
to avoid getting into the details of the internal
algorithms.
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Preface (4/7)
 Process management:
 A process is the unit of work in a system.
 Chapters 3 through 5 (process-concept, multithreaded

programming, process scheduling) describe the process
concept and concurrency as the heart of modern
operating systems.
 A computer system consists of a collection of
concurrently executing processes.
 Operating-system process (execute system code).
 User processes (execute user code).
 The text also cover methods for process scheduling
and interprocess communication.
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Preface (5/7)
 Process coordination:
 Concurrent access to shared data may result in data
inconsistency.
 Chapters 6 & 7 (synchronization) and 8 (deadlocks) describe various
mechanisms to ensure the orderly execution processes so that
data consistency is maintained.
 Memory management:
 To improve both the utilization of the CPU and the speed of its
response to its users, the computer must keep several
processes in memory.
 Memory size is relative smaller than programs on the disks.
 Chapters 9 and 10 (memory-management strategies and virtual-memory
management) deal with main memory management during the
execution of a process.
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Preface (6/7)
 Storage management:
 Chapters 11 through 15 (file system, implementing file
systems, secondary-storage structure, I/O systems) describe

how the file systems, mass storage, and I/O are
handled in a modern compute system.
 The file system of operating systems provides the
mechanism for on-line storage of and access to both

data and programs residing on the disks.
 I/O devices are general the slowest major components
of the computer.
 Since the I/O devices that attach to a computer vary
widely, the operating system needs to provide a wide

range of functionality to applications to allow them to
control all aspects of the devices.
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Preface (7/7)
 Most program examples are written in C (with some Java).
 In addition, students should be familiar with basic data structure,
computer organization.
 The example programs require the following programming

environments:
 Windows API (application programming interface), which provides a set of
functions for managing processes, threads, memory, and peripheral
devices.
 POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface), a set of standards
implemented primarily for UNIX-based operating systems.
 POSIX-compliant operating systems must implement the
POSIX core standard (POSIX.1).

 Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X.
 Windows XP and Windows 2000 systems can also run certain
POSIX programs.
 POSIX also defines several extensions to the standards:
 POSIX1.b – real-time extensions.

 POSIX1.c – an extension for a thread library. 11

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Operating Systems

Chien Chin Chen

Department of Information Management

 Class time: 9:10pm ~ 12:10pm, every Tue.

 Location: Mgmt II Room 206.

 Class notes: NTU COOL

 Andrew S. Tanenbaum, “Modern Operating

 Students who copy (or copied) other's homework will

 This course presents an introduction of operating systems.

 Chapters 3 through 5 (process-concept, multithreaded

systems, secondary-storage structure, I/O systems) describe

mechanism for on-line storage of and access to both

widely, the operating system needs to provide a wide

 The example programs require the following programming

POSIX core standard (POSIX.1).

 POSIX1.b – real-time extensions.

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