College of Chemistry Course Guide

CS 162 - Operating Systems and System Programming (4 Units)

(Taken from the UC Berkeley Course Guide)

Course Overview

Summary

Basic concepts of operating systems and system programming. Utility programs, subsystems, multiple-program systems. Processes, interprocess communication, and synchronization. Memory allocation, segmentation, paging. Loading and linking, libraries. Resource allocation, scheduling, performance evaluation. File systems, storage devices, I/O systems. Protection, security, and privacy.

Prerequisites

CS 61B, CS 61C, and CS 70

Workload

Time Commitment

3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.




UC Berkeley Course Guide