COMSC 420 - Principles of Operating Systems

Institution:

Roger Williams University

Subject:

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Description:

Prerequisites: COMSC 210, COMSC 220 or COMSC 340Students with COMSC 320 are not eligible to take this course except forgrade replacementExamines problems which arise when limited machine resourcesmust be shared among many contending processes; the softwareand hardware solutions which have been devised to address theseproblems; the algorithms and data structures used to implement diskfiles systems, memory management, multiple concurrent processes,and inter-process communications. Also considers efficiencyand security issues, as well as the relationship between machinearchitecture and system software design.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rwu.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 253-1040

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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