CS 6456

Operating Systems

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Course Description

Pre-Requisite(s): Undergraduate course in OS; CS 6354 or instructor permission

Covers advanced principles of operating systems. Technical topics include support for distributed OSs; microkernels and OS architectures; processes and threads; IPC; files servers; distributed shared memory; object-oriented OSs; reflection in OSs; real-time kernels; multiprocessing; multimedia and quality of service; mobile computing; and parallelism in I/O.


  • Felix Lin

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    Spring 2025

  • Brad Campbell

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    Spring 2020

  • Faculty Staff

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    Fall 2020

  • Andrew Grimshaw

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    5.00

     GPA

    3.70

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    Spring 2019

  • Kong-Cheng Wong

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     GPA

    3.26

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    Fall 2016

  • Marty Humphrey

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     GPA

    3.68

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    Fall 2014