Courses/Computer Science/CPSC 457.F2013/Lecture Notes/Overview

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Notes

• Tutorial sessions begin on the 16th.
• Please join the Piazza course discussion site
• slides: http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~locasto/teaching/2013/CPSC457-Fall/talks/intro.pdf

Readings

• http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix/0
• Skim "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)