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CSCI1670

(Formerly CS167 )

Operating Systems

Instructor(s):
Thomas W. Doeppner
Course Home Page:
http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1670/
Location: CIT 368
Meeting Time: G: MWF 2:00-2:50
Exam Group: 07
Semester: 1
Offered This Year?  Yes
When Offered? Every Year

Description

The basic principles of operating systems. Part I: fundamental concepts including multithreaded programming and concurrency, dynamic storage allocation and liberation, linkers and loaders, file systems and virtual memory. Covers actual systems including Solaris, Linux and Windows XP. Part II: operating-system support for distributed systems, including computer communication protocols, remote procedure call protocols, computer security, and distributed file systems. Prerequisite: CSCI0320 or CSCI0360.


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