COM SCI 111
Operating Systems Principles
Computer Science · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to operating systems design and evaluation. Computer software systems performance, robustness, and functionality. Kernel structure, bootstrapping, input/output (I/O) devices and interrupts. Processes and threads; address spaces, memory management, and virtual memory. Scheduling, synchronization. File systems: layout, performance, robustness. Distributed systems: networking, remote procedure call (RPC), asynchronous RPC, distributed file systems, transactions. Protection and security. Exercises involving applications using, and internals of, real-world operating systems.
Letter grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 32, 33, 35L.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
COM SCI 111
- COM SCI 32Introduction to Computer Science II
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- COM SCI 33Introduction to Computer Organization
- COM SCI 35LSoftware Construction
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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