COSC 514 - Operating Systems I

3 Credits

Prerequisite(s): COSC 502 and COSC 504 Introduction to the structure of multiprogramming computer operating systems. Topics include concurrent programming and monitors, process communication and synchronization, process and disk scheduling, deadlocks, memory hierarchies, paging and segmentation. Survey of various processors, performance coprocessors, open systems, O/S security, Unix, and VMS.