ITM 280

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ITM 280

• Operating Systems
• Introduction

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Quick Outline

• OS General Concepts and History
• Process and Thread Management
• CPU Scheduling SMP, ASMP
• Process Synchronization Issues
• Deadlocks
• Memory Management Virtual Memory
• File Systems
• Input / Output Systems
• Integration of Systems

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Quick Notes

• All the material required to be successful in
  this class will not be given to you.
• You will be required to gather and assimilate
  material from other technical manuals and/or the
  web to complete your projects
• You will be required to support your team in the
  research activities covered.
• Each team will be assigned and responsible for a
  removable hard drive to load your operating
  system on

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General Overview of Class

• General Overview of Operating System
  Characteristics
• General Unix/Linux Skills
• Linux Labs to Supplement
• Concurrent with this section
• Teams will be formed
• Members should have complementary skills

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Teams

• Each team will have a team leader the leader
  may rotate if the team chooses.
• Each team will load and familiarize themselves
  with
• The lab equipment
• Fedora Core 2 Linux
• Conduct Lab Experiments and Reports

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What do I care what the other Teams are doing ?

• Every one in the class will be responsible to
  material presented by teams in their
  presentations
• Material presented may be seen in pop-quizzes and
  exams.

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Whats with the pop quizzes

• At random, I may give a pop quiz on material
• Previously covered in a lecture
• Covered in the chapter we are covering today
• It might help to read the material prior to class
• Presented by one of the teams on some aspect of
  their operating system

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Final Project

• All teams will cooperatively develop
• A heterogeneous environment where a user on any
  system may access files, resources such as
  printers and obtain services such as login
  validation from any computer regardless of
  operating system.
• More details later

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NOW

• Introduce yourself to the class
• State your
• Name
• Major
• Experience in the area
• What you expect to learn in this class
• What skills you have that would make you an
  excellent team member
• Send me an email at lschmitt_at_cbu.edu covering
  these areas and any other information you want to
  share with me. Make the subject I280-yourname

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Self Select 4 Teams

• There cannot be more than four members for each
  team
• Turn in to me at the end of this class the
  members of each team