CSC 139. Operating System Principles. 3 Units
Prerequisite(s): CSC 60 and CSC 130 and either CSC 137 or CPE 185. Not currently enrolled in CSC 139.
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Concepts, principles, fundamental issues, organization and structure of contemporary operating systems. Topics include processes, threads, concurrency, parallelism on multi-processor and multi-core systems, CPU scheduling, inter- process communication and synchronization, deadlocks, real and virtual memory management, device management, file systems, security, and protection. Lecture three hours.