CS 180 - Operating System I,Man-Machine Interface

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DigiPen Institute of Technology

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Prerequisite(s): CS 100 & CS 120 This course presents an overview of modern operating systems, in particular Windows and Linux/Unix as implemented on modern PCs. After an overview of what an operating system is and does, we cover the following: organization and design (the kernel and various subsystems), process management (creation and management of processes and threads, including an introduction to multi-threaded programming), networks (the TCP/IP stack and the organization of the Internet), interprocess communication, process synchronization (locks, semaphores, and methods to avoid deadlocks), memory management (hardware and process views of memory layout and demand-paged virtual memory), file systems, and security and protection (viruses, worms, and Trojan horses).

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.digipen.edu

Phone Number:

(425) 558-0299

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Semester

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