Computer Science Comprehensive Exam
Operating Systems Syllabus
1997-1998
Topics:
concurrency and synchronization, CPU scheduling, deadlock, file
systems, memory management, secondary storage management, virtual
memory, protection and security, Unix, classical operating systems.
References:
- Silberschatz, A. and Peterson, J. and Galvin, P., Operating
System Concepts, Addison-Wesley, 4th Edition, Chapters 1-14, 19.
- Tanenbaum, A., Modern Operating Systems,
Prentice-Hall, 1992, Chapters 1-7.