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Operating System Concepts and Design

Spring Semester 2001

Final Exam Time: Thursday, 5/3/2001, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm in LC-F3

Class times: T,TR 11 - 12:50 pm in LC - F3
Email: i371@eecs.uic.edu

Instructor: Pat Troy
Office: SEO 919
Office hours: MF 11:00 - 12:00 and Thursday 1:30 - 3:00
E-Mail: troy@eecs.uic.edu
Phone:(312) 996-8521

TA: Arun Balakrishnan
Office: SEL 2260 ( EECS Lab )
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 2:30 - 4:30pm
E-Mail: abalak1@eecs.uic.edu

Assignments

• Machine Problem #1 - Due: 01/30/2001 2/1/2001
  A request has been made to push the due date back for this machine problem; however, in doing so the first exam may need to be on a different day. For now, we will have MP 1 due on 2/1/2001. We will discuss in class the date of the exam.
• Machine Problem #2 - Due: 02/15/2001 Turnin will be left on until at least 11:59 pm on Friday, 2/16/2001.
• Assignment #3 - Due: 03/20/2001
• Solutions for Assignment# 3
• Assignment #4 - Due: 04/03/2001
• Assignment #5 - Due: 04/24/2001
• Solutions to some problems from Chapter 8 and 9

Other Stuff

• About Turnin

• A sample makfile and some Makefile Tutorials:
• GNU Make : A Program for directing compilation
• Make : An Introduction
• Overview of GNU Make
• Another Makefile Tutorial
• Some Curses Stuff
  • A simple curses program
  • Another curses program
  • More on Curses
  Note: Using curses.h with the g++ compiler may cause a compiler error when telneting into the EECS machines. It works fine when sitting in the EECS labs. You may also try telneting into a different EECS machine.

• Link to Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide
• Link to UNIX IPC Elements