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Operating Systems - COMP3231
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Computer Science and Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs3231
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: (COMP1921 or COMP1927) and (COMP2121 or ELEC2142).
 
 
Equivalent: COMP3891, COMP9201, COMP9283
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

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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