COMP 4270 - Operating Systems

(3) Hierarchy of storage devices, I/O buffering, interrupts, channels; multiprogramming, processor and job scheduling, memory management: paging, segmentation, and virtual memory; management of asynchronous processes; interrupt procedure calls, process stateword and automatic switch instructions, semaphores, concurrency; security and recovery procedures. (F, Sp) PREREQUISITE: COMP 2150, and either COMP 3410 or EECE 4278, or permission of instructor.