1. Operating Systems CS 3013

2. Topics F Background F Admin Stuff F Motivation F Objectives F Operating Systems!

3. Professor Background F Dr. Mark Claypool (professor, “Mark”) F Systems guy –operating systems –distributed systems –collaborative systems –(multimedia performance) F TRS-DOS, MS-DOS, Win95, Solaris F WindowsNT and Linux

4. Student Background F Who are you? –Name –Class (freshman, junior …) –Major (CS, EE, Basket Weaving...) F C experience F Linux experience F Operating Systems? F Other

5. Syllabus Stuff F http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/courses/3013-A00/ F TAs: Hari Kannan, Jae Chung F Office hours: (TBD, see Web page) F Email F Text Book

6. Course Structure F Prerequisites –C programming (must) –Machine organization (recommended) –Unix (recommended) F Grading –Homework (10%) –Exams (50%) –Projects (40%) –Attendance (100% … kidding)

7. Homework F “Paper” problems F Designed to get you ready for exam F Stress ideas taught in class –(Oh yeah, do come to class) F Not done in groups

8. Exams F 2 exams F 50% of grade F Non-cumulative F Closed-note F Closed-book F Closed-friend F Cheat-sheet?

9. Projects F 4 projects (well, sorta 5) F Implementation in Linux! –“Fossil Lab” F Groups! –Group names to Tas –Assign root password F Project 0 –admin, tools, kernel...

10. Slides F On the Web F PPT and PDF F “Today’s Slides” –Say, 12:00-12:30 –Will send email F Caution! Don’t rely upon the slides alone! Use them as supplementary material –(come to class)

11. Why This Class? F WPI CS requirements –“core course” for majors F Combines CS concepts –algorithms, languages, data-structures, hardware –system design w/tradeoffs F Better use of the computer F C programming in Unix environment –Networks, Distributed Computing Systems, WebWare F Fun!