INF-2201 - spring 2008

Changed: 2008-04-29 13:10

Dates for lectures, design reviews, and project hand-in/handouts are listed in the course schedule. Please check this file often, as it may be subject to change over the semester (date of modification will be listed at the top of the file).

News

2008-04-29 – Project 6 and the precept foils are now available.
2008-04-08 – Project 5 and the precept foils are now available.
2008-03-14 – Project 4 and the precept foils are now available.
2008-02-19 – Project 3 and the precept foils are now available.
2008-01-23 – Project 2 and the precept foils are now available.
2008-01-11 – Detailed hand in instructions for the assignments can be found here
2008-01-10 – Final version of the declaration about non-sharing of course material added.
2008-01-09 – important: please ensure that you have registered for the course mailing list (you first need to register for the course be subscripted).
2008-01-09 – Project 1 and the precept foils are now available. Access to this page is restricted to inside the University network. The code is available in the directory /kurs/inf2201/p1 at lgserv3.stud.cs.uit.no. Only those who have registered for the course and have an account at the Ifi-lab have access to this.

Lecture Notes

The lecture notes are added in this directory.

Administrative, project submission etc.

Project FAQs

See this directory.

Readings

Modern Operating Systems, 2nd Edition, by Andrew Tanenbaum, Prentice-Hall 2001
Protected Mode Software Architecture by Tom Shanley, MindShare Inc. 1996 (Errata).
Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manuals
Frank Van Gilluwe: The Undocumented PC, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley Developers Press, 1997. This book collects useful information about various Intel architectures (8086, 286, 386, 486, Pentium and Pentium Pro) and PC systems. This thick book is written for hard-core PC software hackers.
Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie, The C Programming Language, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall, 1988