Welcome to CS 432!

Agenda

• Announcements
  • CS Colloquium tomorrow at 2:30. Masha Lifshin will speak about her thesis work, and Alexandra Constantin will speak about a winter study project.
• Introduction
• Syllabus and Course Ground Rules
• What is an Operating System?
  • Operating System Components
  • Examples of Operating Systems
• Some History
  • Very early systems - one at a time
  • Early mainframe/batch systems
  • Multiprogramming batch systems
  • Time sharing systems
  • PCs
  • Today's multiuser workstation/PCs
  • Parallel and distributed systems
  • Real-time systems
  • Handheld systems

Late Penalty Graph

Assignment

Lab 0 out today, due next class.