Computer Science 322
Operating Systems

• Introduction
  • This is an important course! It's a major requirement!
  • What do you mean by "operating system"? Course expectations?
  • Where this course fits in
  • Examples of problems we will study
• Syllabus and course ground rules
• Computer accounts
• Lab 0 out
• Extra C/Unix crash course/refresher
  • Who is interested?
  • When?
• What is an Operating System?

Due at the start of class, Wednesday, February 3.

You need not submit answers to these questions, but you will have a chance to ask questions about them at the start of class.

1. SG&G 1.1, p. 42
2. SG&G 1.5, p. 42

Please submit answers to these questions either as a hard copy (typeset or handwritten are OK) or by email to jteresco AT mtholyoke.edu by the start of class. We will discuss these questions at the start of class, so no late submissions are accepted.

1. Send me mail at jteresco AT mtholyoke.edu with a brief (a couple sentences) indication of your level of experience with the Unix operating system and its variants, plus a list of other operating systems you have used. Also include a list of programming languages you have used and your proficiency in each, and anything else you'd like me to know about your background coming in.
2. SG&G 1.13, p. 43

Please read Chapters 1 and 2 of SG&G and email me with or come to class on Wednesday with any questions about the topics covered. If there are no questions, I will assume that it all makes sense and we will only skim over the topics during class.

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