Course Description: Functional criteria for operating system design. Job management, task management, data management, resource allocation and dump and trace facilities.
Course covered the different aspects of an opeating system covering topics such as memory allocation. Wrote programs in C with the express purpose of learning all the different kind of system calls and how they interact with the operating system. Also covered topics such as shared memory, threads, parallel processing, and mutex locks. One assignment covered creating a shell and implementing various linux commands.