6.097 - Fall 2002 Schedule (1124/02)

Week of
Sunday
Monday
Lecture
Wednesday
Lecture
Thursday
(No class)
9/1
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9/7
   L1: OS overview
Read: Chapter 1, 2, and 3 of Lion's
  
9/8
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9/14
 L2: PC hardware and x86 programming
Read: PC assembly language
Assignment: Lab 1: bootloader and assembly
 L3: Address spaces
Read: Chapter 4, 5, and 6 Lion's plus source code
  
9/15
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9/21
 L4: Kernels and OS structure
Read: Chapter 7 of Lion's plus source code
(don't worry about user processes yet)
 L5: Address spaces on the x86
Read: Chapter 3 (Protected-Mode Memory)
Assignment: Lab 2 Memory management
 Due: Lab 1 bootloader
9/22
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9/28
 Student holiday
 L6: Threads and context switching
Read: Chapter 8 of Lion's plus source code
  
9/29
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10/5
 L7: Entering and leaving kernel
Read: Chapter 9, 10, 11, and 12 (until sys1.c)
of Lion's plus source code
 L8:Interrupt and exception handling on x86
Read: Chapter 5 (Interrupt and Exception handling)
Assignment: Lab 3 Traps and interrupts
Tomorrow: Add date
 Due: Lab 2 memory management
10/6
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10/12
 L9: Creating user address spaces
Read: Chapter 7 and Remainder of Chapter 12
of Lion's plus source code
 L10: Interprocess communication
Read: Chapter 13 and Chapter 21 of Lion's plus source code 		 
10/13
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10/19
 Columbus Day L11: I/O
Read: Chapter 15, 16, and 17 of Lion's plus source code
Assignment: Lab 4 user-level address spaces
 Due: Lab 3 traps and interrupts
10/20
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10/26
 L12: Files and directories
Read: chapter 18 and 19 of Lion's plus source code
Read: Vnodes
 Mid-term quiz  
10/27
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11/2
 L13: Kernel API
Read: exokernel
Due: Lab 4 Fork and IPC Part 1 		L14: IPC
Read: Improving IPC by kernel design
 Due: Lab 4 Fork and IPC Part 2
11/3
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11/9
 L15: Coordination
Read: Fast mutual exclusion for uniprocessors
 L16: File servers
Read: Soft updates
Assignment: Lab 5 Exec and File Systems
 Due: Lab 4 Fork and IPC Part 3
11/10
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11/16
 Veterans day
 L17: Buffer cache and DMA
Read: IO lite
  
11/17
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11/23
 L18: Pagers
Read: Mach external pager
Drop date
Due: Lab 5 File System 		L19: Network server
Read: User-level networking
Assignment: Lab 6 Shell
  
11/24
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11/30
 L20: Multiprocessors
Read: Disco
Thanksgiving Vacation  
12/1
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12/7
 L21: Sensors
Read: Tiny OS
L22: Bugs in operating systems
Read: OS bugs
 Due: Lab 6 Shell
12/8 - 12/14
 OS bakeoff
 Second quiz
Topic: Papers assigned for L13 through L22. 		 

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