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Summary of Readings by Date

Date assigned	reading
Week 1	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)
Week 2	A Tiny Guide to Programming in 32-bit x86 Assembly Language 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
Week 3	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"
Week 4	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"
Week 5	none
Week 6	none
Week 7	"It Can Be Done" (Multics anecdote; writing correct code with a pencil) MOS: 10.3.5: "Booting Linux" An Ode to Real Mode Setup Code
Week of Oct 28	MOS 2.2 MOS 2.3 MOS 2.5