Basic principles of operating systems: addressing modes, indexing, relative addressing, indirect addressing, stack maintenance; implementation of multitask systems; control and coordination of tasks, deadlocks, synchronization, mutual exclusion; storage management, segmentation, paging, virtual memory; protection, sharing, access control; file systems; resource management; evaluation and prediction of performance. Students are expected to spend at least three hours per week gaining hands-on experience in using and modifying a small operating system.

Homepage	http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/cs503
Usually Offered:	Fall and Spring In 2007-08, Fall only
Credit:	3 hours (class)
Prerequisite:	CS 502
University Catalog:	CS 503