Course

Operating Systems - COMP9201

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

School: School of Computer Science and Engineering

Course Outline: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9201

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: COMP9024 and COMP9032.

Equivalent: COMP3231, COMP3891, COMP9283

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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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 drawn from UNIX, MS-DOS, Mach. Lab. programming assignments.
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