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2009-2010 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2009-2010 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ECE 565 - Computer Operating Systems

3 credits
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: ECE 161 or CIS 215; ECE 257; and ECE 260
Operating system design and implementation using the specifics of current operating systems. Topics covered include: file, process, memory and Input/Output management; multitasking, synchronization, and deadlocks; scheduling and inter-process communication. Projects include system’s programming assignments to investigate the kernel interface, files, processes, and inter-process communication for a current operating system.