CS162 Operating Systems and System Programming Hakim Weatherspoon, cs162-td@imail.cs.berkeley.edu Last updated 21 April 2003 Kickin' it old school: Dennis Ritchie (standing) and Ken Thompson begin porting UNIX to the PDP-11 via two Teletype 33 terminals (click to enlarge)

Hi! This is my TA page for CS162, the operating systems course at UC Berkeley EECS. Please see the official CS162 home page for complete details on the course. I will be using this page to provide news, information, and links to the students in my sections.

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Logistics

Office Hours:

• Monday, 12:00-1:00pm, 651 Soda Hall. (Alcove lounge on east end of 6th floor).
• Tuesdays, 3:30-4:30pm, 651 Soda Hall.
• By appointment. please email me for an appointment to meet cs162-td@imail.cs.berkeley.edu.

Section times:

• Section 105, 2-3 pm, 9 Evans
• Section 107, 5-6 pm, 310 Soda

Contact: Please direct most questions regarding the course to the official newsgroup, ucb.class.cs162.

Section Notes

These are the (somewhat informal) notes I use in my sections. They will often contain details not actually covered in section, so they might be useful reading for you.

• Section #1, 28 Jan 2003
• Section #2, 04 Feb 2003
• Section #3, 11 Feb 2003
• Section #4, 18 Feb 2003
• Section #5, 25 Feb 2003
• Section #6, 4 Mar 2003
• Section #7, 11 Mar 2003
• Section #8, 18 Mar 2003
• Section #9, 1 Apr 2003
• Section #10, 8 Apr 2003
• Section #12, 22 Apr 2003
• Section #14, 6 May 2003

Useful links

• Nachos for Java Walkthrough, from Dan Hettena and Rick Cox at UC Berkeley.
• Short tutorial on using CVS, from Armando Fox at Stanford.
• A Roadmap through Nachos, from Thomas Narten at Duke: PostScript and HTML. Note: This covers the C++ version of Nachos, but still might be useful to you.

Fun stuff (depending very much on your definition of 'fun' of course)

• Short paper on the History of UNIX from Dennis Ritchie.
• Want to know how a real operating system works? Check out The Linux Kernel, an online guide to the internals of Linux.
• Recommended reading: Understanding the Linux Kernel, published by O'Reilly and Associates.
• What Really Happened on the Mars Pathfinder? A real-world lesson about threads, scheduling, and priority.