CM12002: Computer Systems Architectures

CM12002 Computer Systems Architectures

Unit Catalogue

CM12002

Consolidation Week

Week 6, starting Monday 11th March, is a consolidation week, when there will be no new material for this Unit.

Some texts

Operating Systems: OSs have been around nearly as long as computers, so there are many books -- just pick one!

"Operating Systems Internal and Design Principles" W Stallings, Prentice Hall
"Computer Systems Architecture A Networking Approach" R Williams, Addison-Wesley
"Introduction to Operating Systems Behind the Desktop" J English, Palgrave
"Operating Systems a Concept-Based Approach" D M Dhamdhere, McGraw Hill
"Operating Systems Concepts with Java" A Silbershatz et al, Wiley

Some links

Wikipedia page
A list of OSs
A list of scheduling algorithms
List of device bandwidths
Homebrew Cray-1A a 1/10-scale binary compatible working model of an iconic computer

Past Papers

Here is link to the Past papers for CM10195, a previous unit related to this one. The format of the CM12002 paper will differ, but some of the content is applicable.

Moodle

Not much on the Moodle page.

Slides

These will be released after the relevant lecture: there is no substitute to having the material go through your brain at least once!

Note that these slides are reminders to me as to what topics I should cover: you are expected to read around the subject and refer to your lecture notes. Don't treat the slides as the entirety of your study. The slides are necessarily brief in style and their content would not often constitute a full answer to an exam question.

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