Operating Systems

These pages belong at http://go.csis.ul.ie/~cs4145/

Lecture notes

I will add Lecture notes to these web pages as I go along.

Books

There are three books you might look at for this; the prices are from O'Mahony's campus branch:

Operating Systems Design and Implementation by Andrew Tannenbaum and Albert Woodhull (ISBN 0-136-30195-9, Prentice Hall, 1997, Euro 68.95)

The most detailed, listing a complete operating system and going through it, as well as presenting all the concepts.

Operating Systems by John O'Gorman (ISBN 0-333-80288-8, Palgrave 2000, Euro 32.00)

Written by my predecessor in lecturing this course. This is not as detailed as Tannenbaum.

Operating Systems with Linux by John O'Gorman (ISBN 0-333-94745-2, Palgrave 2001, Euro 38.00)

This is somewhere between the other two. It doesn't include a source listing, but does give examples from a specific system that you can download.

Practical notes

• Shell commands

Past papers

• 2003-04 main paper
• 2003-04 resit
• 2004-05 main paper
• 2004-05 resit
• 2005-06, with sample answers

See also sample questions.

Other notes

• Revision notes
• Learning OS
• How to answer exams
• How not to answer exams

Reference

Here are some useful reference sites:

• FOLDOC (Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing)
• Wikipedia (on-line encyclopedia)