1. Week1 software - Lecture outline & Assignments
Dr. John Abraham
UTPA

2. In class assignment
What is your understanding of an operating system? Write ½ page and use it for class discussion.

3. Operating System
Definition

4. OS Roles
User view
System view

5. Diagram of Computer system organization

6. Boot strap program

7. Storage hierarchy

8. I/O Structure

9. Computer System Architecture

10. OS structure

11. OS operations

12. Process Management

13. Memory management

14. Storage management

15. Caching

16. Protection and security

17. Distributed Systems

18. Network