OS Homework

For those who could not answer well enough on the Exercise problem this week, you can work on the same problems as homework. Please use the submission scripts hw1-submission and hw1-test as well as the template file hw1-tmpl.txt in the course directory. The deadline is by the end of Monday (10/15).

OS: Lecture Slides

Lecture slides for the 3rd edition of the textbook posted here may not be directly opened from the browser. This is due to the system changes performed by the administration of the school. We will post the pdf version of the slides later. As a workaround you should download he ppt files and open them from the Star Office (soffice).

You can actually open the ppt files from the browser. Please associate /usr/local/bin/soffice to open the file for the .ppt extension.

OS Exercise 1

Today's problems are posted at the Exercise page.

OS (tentative) Syllabus posted

Tentative syllabus of the Operating Systems course has been posted.

OS class begins from October 10

According to the Campus Calendar (Japanese), the course schedule of October 3 (Wed) will be replaced with that of Friday. Therefore, no OS class on October 3 and the first day of the class will take place on October 10.

Textbook for OS and AOS

The Operating Systems class and the Advanced Operating Systems class will use the same textbook, Modern Operating Systems, 3rd edtion, by Andrew S. Tanenbaum (the latter course is in the graduate program and will go through different chapters than undergrad, off course).

Undergrad students will receive email from the university bookstore regarding the textbook order for the 2nd semester soon. There are several reasons you should order the textbook through the bookstore:

• the Japanese subsidiary of the publisher gives us a deep discount (you should compare it with that of amazon, for example),
• since the import books cannot be returned, the bookstore orders a limited quantity. If you miss the first batch of the orders, you won't get it for several weeks after the semester. You might have come an easy way that you didn't have to buy textbooks (even thought you were required), but it is not the case this time.
• The book is a very popular, standard and well written as a reading material. For some of you, to take a course might have meant, copy-and-paste web search results and collecting past-exam problems. Now it's time for reading comprehension.

AOS Syllabus Revised

The (tentative) syllabus of the Advanced Operating Systems has been revised.

• Textbook will be Modern Operating Systems, International Edition, 3/E (the same book as the undergrad. Operating Systems, but will use the Chapters of advanced topics),
• The (tentative) schedule has been significantly revised.

If you plan to take (or are interested in taking) the course, please contact the instructor.