COMP 4270 - Operating Systems

Credit Hours: (3)

Description: Hierarchy of storage devices, I/O buffering, interrupts, channels; processor and job scheduling, memory management: paging, segmentation, and virtual memory; interrupt procedure calls; multiprogramming, data races in shared resources, semaphores, concurrency, management of asynchronous processes and synchronization; security and recovery procedures. It is recommended that students take COMP 3410 before taking this course. (F, Sp) PREREQUISITE: COMP 2150, or permission of instructor.