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==Summary of Readings by Date==
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!Date assigned || reading
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|Week 1
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* http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix/0
* Skim "[http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html How To Ask Smart Questions]"
* MOS: 1.1: What is an Operating System?
* MOS: 1.2: History of Operating Systems
* MOS: 1.4: The Operating System Zoo
* MOS: 1.5: Operating System Concepts
* MOS: 10.1: History of Unix and Linux
* MOS: 13.1: The Nature of the Design Problem (optional)
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|Week 2
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* [http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs216/Fall2005/notes/x86-doc.pdf A Tiny Guide to Programming in 32-bit x86 Assembly Language]
* [http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html A Whirlwind Tour on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux]
* MOS: 1.3: Computer Hardware Review
* MOS: 1.6: System Calls
* MOS: 1.7: Operating System Structure
* LKD Chapter 1 
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|Week 3
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* MOS: 1.6: System Calls (you should have read this already)
* LKD: Chapter 5. System Calls (this describes how to '''add''' a system call to your OS, something you'll have an opportunity to practice in your tutorials later and in HW3)
* LDK Chapter 3
* MOS: Section 2.1: Processes (this should be partly review of what we've talked about in class)
* MOS: Section 10.2.5 (Linux kernel structure)
* MOS: Section 10.3.1 (about processes in Linux) should reinforce some class discussion
* MOS: 3.1 "No Memory Abstraction"
* MOS: 3.2 "A Memory Abstraction: Address Spaces"
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|Week 4
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* MOS: 3.2.3
* LKD: Chapter 15, pages 320-322
* MOS: 3.3 "Virtual Memory" (this subsection also contains a review of paging and TLBs)
* MOS: 3.7.3 "Segmentation with Paging: The Intel Pentium" 
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|Week 5
|none
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|Week 6
|none
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|Week 7
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* [http://www.multicians.org/andre.html "It Can Be Done"] (Multics anecdote; writing correct code with a pencil)
* MOS: 10.3.5: "Booting Linux"
* [http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~locasto/teaching/2012/CPSC457/ode2realmodesetupcode.html An Ode to Real Mode Setup Code]
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|Week of Oct 28
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* MOS 2.2
* MOS 2.3
* MOS 2.5
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