CS 3600Operating Systems

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Prerequisite(s): CS 2050 and CS 2400 with grade of "C-" or better; or permission of instructor This course provides an introduction to modern computer operating systems, their use, design, development, and implementation. Topics covered include: operating system modes, structuring methods, process and thread scheduling and dispatch, concurrency, inter-process communication, memory management, file system organization (in both stand-alone and networked environments), and system security. Students are required to write programs that implement some operating system functions.