Weekly Textbook Assignments

• You should be able to answer Review Questions on the readings for each week.
• Problem questions are due for handing in on Tuesdays after the week you are reading the chapter.
• Readings, review questions, and problems are all from Operating Systems, 5th Edition by William Stallings, Prentice-Hall, 2005. ISBN 0131479547.
• Lab assignments are listed in a separate document.

Skip appendices unless specifically assigned (e.g., A1b pp46-50 in Week 1).

* means extra credit


Week Reading  Topic                      Problems due the follwoing Tuesday
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 1   Ch 1,A1b Computer System Overview   1.3, 1.4, 1.7 - Due Week 2
                                         
 2   Ch 2     Operating System Overview  1.1, 1.13, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5

 3   Ch 3     Processes                  3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10

 4   Ch 4     Threads                    4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, *4.8

 5   Ch 5     Mutual Exclusion           5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.8, 5.12, 5.14
               & Synchronization         *(5.5, 5.17) (* is extra credit) 

 6   Ch 6     Deadlock & Starvation      6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.10, 6.11, 6.16, *(6.15, 6.17)

 7   Ch 7     Memory Management          7.2, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.12, 7.13, 7.14 Due Tue Week 10

Winter Quarter

 1   Ch 8     Virtual Memory             8.1, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6 Due Week 2

 2   Ch 9     Uniprocessor Scheduling    9.1, 9.2, 9.11 Due Week 3



* Extra credit exercises