EMU FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Code:                CmpE 241

Course Title:                 Operating Systems

Course Credit:               (4,1) 4

Semester:                      2003-2004 Fall

Instuctor:                       Assoc. Prof. Dr. Atilla ELÇİ (Gr. 05, Gr.06)

Office no:           CmpE 222

Office Tel:          630 2843

E-mail:                Atilla.Elci@EMU.edu.tr

Website:             http://cmpe.emu.edu.tr/aelci/

Coord. Assistant:          Evren ÇAVDIR (Gr. 03, 05)

Office no:           125

Office Tel:          630 2831

E-mail:                Evren.Cavdir@EMU.edu.tr

Lab Assistant:               Taher AFRIDI (Gr. 03, 05)

Office no:           201

Office Tel:          630 1625

E-mail:                Taher.Afridi@EMU.edu.tr

Lab Assistant:               Melike ŞAH (Gr. 01, 02, 04, 06)

Office no:           119

Office Tel:          630 2833

E-mail:                Melike.Sah@EMU.edu.tr

Lab Assistant:               Öncü ALTUNTAŞ (Gr. 01, 02, 04, 06)

Office no:           117

Office Tel:          630 2830

E-mail:                Oncu.Altuntas@EMU.edu.tr

 

Textbook:                      Andrew S. Tanenbaum:

Modern Operating Systems, Prentice Hall, 2001.

ISBN: 0-13-092641-8.

Click for the book site (See below for PowerPoint presentation files)

 

Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne:

Operating System Concepts with XP Update, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003.

ISBN: 0-471-25060-0

 

OBJECTIVE

An operating system manages all peripheral devices, network interfaces, other program resources and users of such. In short, an OS is a complex program system. The study of operating systems has gained importance with the advancements made in computer organization and programming systems. This course is devoted to a structured survey of OS concepts and practices. Similarly, certain prominent OS will as well be introduced. Special emphasis will be assigned to Unix/Linux.

 

Participant of the course will be required to carry out lab explorations, practical work in terms of assignments and small projects.

 

COURSE OUTLINE

See the outline document common to all groups.

 

EXAMINATION AND GRADING

See the outline document common to all groups.

 

IMPORTANT NOTES

Office Hours: 14:30 – 15:30 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays

Also see the outline document common to all groups.

 

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION FILES

These are .zip files for which you'll need an extractor. Win XP has a built-in zip file extractor; for other PC OS's, you may use shareware WinAce Archiver, WinZip, Alattin Stuffit Expander.

Decompressed files are Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. If you do not have Microsoft Office installed, go to the Office Update File Converters and Viewers page to download a PowerPoint viewer for your operating system (Windows and Macintosh only).

• All chapters in a single .zip file (20 MB)
• Chapter 1: Intro (2.6 MB)
• Chapter 2: Processes (6.5 MB)
• Chapter 3: Deadlocks (1 MB)
• Chapter 4: Memory Management (4 MB)
• Chapter 5: Input / Output (4.5 MB)
• Chapter 6: File Systems (2.8 MB)
•  

REFERENCES AND USEFUL LINKS

• Course on  Windows 2000, Lancaster University, UK
• Inside Windows Operating System, ver. 1, Audio/Visual presentation (viewable through Microsoft Media Player), Microsoft, June 2003; 2 CDs.
  You can borrow them from me.
   

OS REFERENCES

• Coyote Linux: smallest footprint firewall and internet connection sharing. Check this "floppy OS".
• Made in Turkey:
  * Uludağ Project: open source national operating system with rich Turkish support and development based on Linux kernel. Product will be available by end 2004 and openly distributed. It's reported that TÜBİTAK's Ulusal Elektronik ve Kriptoloji Araştırma Enstitüsü is working to prepare a distribution based on Uludağ for use by Turkish Armed Forces. (Site in Turkish).
  * Gelecek Linux and ancillary Linux software. In Turkish.
• Linux Documents: books, papers, manuals on Linux (mostly Turkish).
• Linux commands in one page: download the zipped pdf  file.
• Linux versions of some DOS/Windows commands

• Help on installing Linux:

• Turkish Linux groups' sites might have relevant info: www.linux.org.tr and www.lkd.org.tr.

• Linux on Laptops: http://www.linux-laptop.net/

• Professor Norman Matloff's Beginner's Guide to Installing Linux: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/linux.html

• How to install Linux? http://www.linux.org/docs/beginner/install.html

• Linux Online - FTP Resources: http://www.linux.org/dist/ftp.html

• RedHat 9: an installation story (in Turkish): http://lkd.belgeler.org/howto/rh9-kurulum.html

• And, of course, best yet, check the how-to guides included with the media for the Linux flavor you wish to install.

I wish you patience and perseverance on this thorny road.