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 Operating Systems - COMP3231
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Contact: 
Elphinstone,Kevin John
Keller,Gabriele Cornelia
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: COMP2011 or COMP2711, COMP2121 or ELEC2041; Excluded: COMP3891,COMP9201,COMP9283.
 
 
Session Offered: See Class Timetable
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
  

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 systems. Case studies: UNIX & NT. Lab: Programming assignments.

Assumed Knowledge: C

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