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 Date   |  Topic and/or Event  |  Readings  | 
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January 30  |  Introduction and Overview; OS Structures; Lab 0 Out  |  Topic Notes: Introduction and Overview, SGG 1, SGG 2  | 
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February 1  |  No Class: Off-campus Talk  |    | 
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February 4  |  Processes; Lab 1 Out  |  Topic Notes: Processes and Threads, SGG 3  | 
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February 6  |  Processes, Threads  |  SGG 4  | 
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February 8  |  Threads  |   | 
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February 11  |  CPU Scheduling: Basics  |   Topic Notes: CPU Scheduling, SGG 5.1-5.3  | 
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February 13  |  Class Cancelled: Weather  |   | 
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February 15  |  CPU Scheduling: Round Robin, Multilevel Queues, Traditional Unix Scheduling; Lab 2 Out  |   | 
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February 18  |  CPU Scheduling: Multiprocessors and Threads, Modern OS Examples  |  SGG 5.4-5.6  | 
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February 20  |  Cooperating Processes, Critical Sections  |  Topic Notes: Process Synchronization, SGG 6.1-6.3  | 
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February 22  |  No Class: Off-campus Talk  |    | 
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February 25  |  Critical Sections; Lab 3 Out  |  SGG 6.4  | 
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February 27  |  Critical Sections with Hardware Support; Semaphores  |  SGG 6.5  | 
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February 29  |  Semaphores; Exam Review  |    | 
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March 3  |  Synchronization Problems; Exam 1 Out  |  SGG 6.6  | 
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March 5  |  Synchronization Problems; Lab 4 Out  |   | 
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March 7  |  Semaphore Implementations; Synchronization Implementations  |  SGG 6.8  | 
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March 10  |  More Semaphore Implementations; SysV Semaphores; Monitors  |  SGG 6.7  | 
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March 12  |  No Class: SIAM PP08 Conference  |    | 
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March 14  |  No Class: SIAM PP08 Conference  |    | 
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March 17-21  |  Spring Break!  |    | 
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March 24  |  Unix Systems Programming; Lab 5 Out  |  Topic Notes: Unix Systems Programming  | 
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March 26  |  Unix Systems Programming  |    | 
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March 28  |  Unix Systems Programming; Deadlock  |  SGG 7; Topic Notes: Deadlock  | 
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March 31  |  Deadlock; Term Project Out  |   | 
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April 2  |  Deadlock Wrapup; Memory Management: Basics  |  Topic Notes: Memory Management, SGG 8.1-8.3  | 
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April 4  |  In Clapp 127!, Memory Management: Contiguous Allocation and Paging  |  SGG 8.4-8.5 | 
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April 7  |  Memory Management: Paging and Segmentation  |  SGG 8.6  | 
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April 9  |  Exam Review; Memory Management  |    | 
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April 11  |  No Class: CCSCNE 2008; Term Project Proposals Due  |   | 
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April 14  |  Memory Management: Virtual Memory; Exam 2 Out  |  SGG 9.1-9.4  | 
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April 16  |  Memory Management: Virtual Memory  |  SGG 9.5-9.6  | 
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April 18  |  Memory Management: Working Set Simulation, Segmentation; The Cancelled Lab 6  |    | 
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April 21  |  File Systems: Interface and Implementations; Term Project Progress Reports Due  |  Topic Notes: Filesystems, SGG 10, SGG 11  | 
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April 23  |  File Systems: Directory Structures  |    | 
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April 25  |  File Systems: Implementations  |    | 
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April 28  |  File System Optimizations: Disk Scheduling, RAID, Journaling  |  SGG 12  | 
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April 30  |  RAID; Protection and Security; Term Project Paper Drafts Due  |  Topic Notes: Protection and Security, SGG 16, SGG 14, SGG 15  | 
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May 2  |  Protection and Security; Course Evalulations  |   | 
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May 5  |  Encryption; Wrapup (during class meeting); Final Project Presentations (6:30-9 PM); (Final Submissions Due May 6)  |   | 
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May 9-13  |  Take-Home Final Exam  |   | 
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