Operating Systems Concepts - Part II

This course is taught jointly by Julie McCann and Will Knottenbelt. Lecture notes and tutorial exercises for the first half of the course can be found here.

The lecture notes for the second half of the course are given below.

• Chapter 6: The System Nucleus
• 4-up version of slides for printing (pdf)
• Chapter 7: Processor Scheduling Strategies
• 4-up version of slides for printing (pdf)
• Chapter 8: Memory management
• 4-up version of slides for printing (pdf)

Credits: Lecture notes developed from earlier versions by Dr J Magee, Dr K Twidle, Dr S Vickers and Dr A Burton.

Here are the tutorial exercises:

• Tutorial 5: The Simple Kernel
• Online version for browsing
• Postscript version for printing
• Sample Solution: user.cpp
• Tutorial 6: Simple Kernel Processor Scheduling
• Online version for browsing
• Postscript version for printing
• Tutorial 7: Assessed Exercise 2
• Online version for browsing
• Postscript version for printing

• Selected sections of the simple kernel code (postscript)
• A cute animated simple kernel demo (for Windows)