2006 CS 321 - Operating Systems

Meeting time: 10:30-11:30pm
Room 106 Chapman Building
University of Alaska Fairbanks

UAF CS F321-F01
3.0 Credits, Spring 2006
Prerequisite: CS 301 (Asm)

Instructor: Dr. O. Lawlor
ffosl@uaf.edu, 474-7678
Office: 210C Chapman
Hours: 2-3 MWF or by appointment

Course Components

Blackboard is where all course announcements and assignments will be posted.
Lecture Notes as somewhat incoherent web pages. Download all lecture notes and examples as a Zip or Tar-gzip (about a half meg each).
Homework problems and solutions (but beware: some are posted only in blackboard!)
Course syllabus (PDF) which includes dates to remember, the grading policy, and a course outline.

Resources

See the Emulation page for details on a variety of emulators.
NetRun is a network-accessible way to assemble and run code right from your web browser. You'll need to activate your account and get a password from the NetRun Password Reset page. You'll then be emailed a password for logging in to NetRun. We'll be using this for a few homeworks, so get an account and try the system out! NetRun Help. Send me bug reports!

Documentation

If you haven't written x86 assembly, read my NASM x86 cheat sheet or the NASM Docs, in particular the x86 Instruction List.
A good survey of BIOS functions for UNESCO from a university in Vietnam.
Ralph Brown's Interrupt List is the definitive reference for all interrupt functions. See just the BIOS interrupts, like the TELETYPE output interrupt.

O. Lawlor, ffosl@uaf.edu
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