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Operating Systems - COMP9201
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Students studying
 
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Computer Science and Engineering
 
 
Contact: 
Elphinstone,Kevin John
Keller,Gabriele Cornelia
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: COMP9022, COMP9024 or enrolment in MIT program 8684; Excluded: COMP3231,COMP3891,COMP9283.
 
 
Offered: 
Session One
Session Two
 
 
Fee Band: 2
 
 

Description

Operating system organisation and services. Process management: scheduling, synchronisation and communication. Memory management: virtual memory, paging and segmentation. Storage management: Disk scheduling, file systems. Protection and Security. Distributed operating systems and file systesm. Case studies drawn from UNIX, MS-DOS, Mach. Lab. programming assignments.
Note/s: MEngSc students should assess their own pre-requisite knowledge and seek advice if they are uncertain.

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