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SUMMARY:Operating System Internals - Christian Hands
DTSTART:20091201T183000Z
DTEND:20091201T193000Z
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CONTACT:John Wickerson
DESCRIPTION:The part 1A course on Operating Systems covered many of the de
 sign decisions in operating systems. It described what features an Operati
 ng System might implement to processes above\, but it lacked some implemen
 tation details\, and some things that really glue an Operating System toge
 ther. In particular\, I will be talking about:\n\n* The booting process\, 
 including what might go in a bootsector and legacies left by the 8086 proc
 essor and family which are still found on x86 machines today. \n* How we m
 ight allocate memory\, i.e. like the malloc and free functions in C. \n* H
 ow to provide a GUI. \n* The role of device drivers and how they fit in.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Churchill College
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