Tuesday, September 27, 2016

OS Textbook

The textbook of the Operating Systems course: Modern Operating Systems: Global Edition , is available at the university bookstore. Due to the return policy, they only have limited copies. Please buy your own ASAP if you take the course. (if you click the link above, you will see the price at the bookstore is significantly discounted).

Friday, September 2, 2016

Web site for Operating Systems Course 2016

The web site for the Operating Systems course has been created. However, it is still under construction and contents may be missing or inconsistent. Please be patient and keep checking constantly (as well as this page).

There are few things that the students taking the OS course should be aware of:

Rules and Policies

Due to the standardization demands from the school, the rules and policies on the exercise submissions and the grading scheme will be revised. They will be reflected on the course web site (as they will be build).

Textbook

We are going to use the following book as the textbook:

Modern Operating Systems, Global Edition, 4/E , by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, ISBN 10: 1292061421, ISBN 13: 9781292061429, Prentice Hall.

Please order your copy at the University Bookstore. The number of copies they will order initially is limited. Normally, buying through the university bookstore will get you deep discount.