CSE4200

Computer equipment and operating systems

(IT)

Not offered in 2002

J Ceddia

6 points + 4 hours per week + First semester + Caulfield + Prohibition: COT4200

Synopsis: Review of computer architecture. Advanced design issues: general vs special purpose registers, orthogonal and complex instruction sets, microcode, caches and pipelines. RISC. Review of operating system concepts: architecture, components, concurrent processes, process communication, polling interrupt driven processes, scheduling, I/O, multi-user systems, security and privileges. Current operating systems: widely used operating systems, such as UNIX, OS/MVS, OS/2, VAX/VMS. Operating system extensions: X-windows, Microsoft Windows, Presentation Manager.

Assessment: Examination (2 hours): 50% + Practical work: 50%