CIS-332 -- Principles of Operating Systems

Professor: Franz J. Kurfess

Home page:http://www.cis.njit.edu/~franz   E-mail:franz@cis.njit.edu 

Textbook:

	Required: A. Silberschatz and P.B. Galvin
	``Operating System Concepts'', 4th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1994.

	Additionally recommended: W. Stallings
	``Operating Systems'', 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1995.	
	A copy of this book is on hold in the library.

Grading:

	  Midterm (open book, notes)			20%
	  Final Exam (open book, notes)			30%
	  Implementation Project or Research Paper 	20%
	  Homework					30%

(201) 596 5767

3:00 - 5:00 pm

franz@cis.njit.edu

5:00 - 7:00 pm

Schedule

Course Material

• Transparencies as Powerpoint files (courtesy Leon Jololian). You can find viewers for popular formats like PowerPoint (.PPT), Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) and PostScript (.PS) under the software section of the CIS Department's homepage. Printouts are also available from Affordable Copies Center, 68 Halsey Street, Newark, Tel. (201) 802 1007.
• Tentative schedule for homework and project with pointers to homework tasks
  
• Project
  Description of the project (WWW Page on an Operating System or Research Paper)
• Honor Code for Projects
  A collection of relevant items from the NJIT Student Handbook
• Web Pages by Students
  WWW Pages on an Operating System issues put together by the students of the CIS 332 class in the Spring 1997 semester and previous semesters. Unfortunately, some pages are not accessible any more since the accounts were deactivated.
• WWW Hints
  Where to find further information, e.g. how to install your own home page on the hertz system (might be a little out of date)
• Old Exams
  PostScript files of exams from previous semesters

Additional Material

• References for more books and journal articles on Operating Systems
  
• Information on Operating Systems on the WWW