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Course Catalog 1998/99


Business Adm and Social Science

IED309 Operating Systems 7.5 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
Q IV

LANGUAGE:English/Swedish

EXAMINER
L Furberg Fo ing


PREREQUISITES
Administrative Data Processing Systems A and B1, or equivalent.

COURSE AIM
The aim of the course is to give the student fundamental knowledge of - operating systems, parts and functioning - systems software and real-time systems

CONTENTS
The course deals with - construction and functioning of the operating systems - conditions and principles of known operating systems - concept of process, scheduling, deadlock-situations - different types of systems, management and access rights - virtual storage management and placement strategies - data security, systems software, real-time programming - principles of parallel computer environments, parallel algorithms

TEACHING
Teaching will take the form of lessons/lectures and compulsory laboratory work.

EXAMINATION
Examination will be in the form of written examination and required assignments.
COURSE GRADE SCALE:

ITEMS/CREDITS
Individual exam 6.00ECTS
Required assignments 1.50ECTS

COURSE LITTERATURE
Dietel H M: Operating Systems, Second edition, Addison-Wesley 1990, 850 p. Operativsystem - Röda Tråden (in Swedish), IES/DSV Högskolan i Luleå, 1996. References: Johansson S: Operativsystemets grunder (in Swedish), Studentlitteratur 1989, 360 p.

Further information: Lars Furberg

Valid for school year 1998/99.
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