Announcements

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Grading Policy

Homeworks are graded on a check-plus, check, check- basis. These convert to a number: 5/4/3.    You are expected to do your own work!  (See academic integrity policy).

Homework is 25% of your grade.  Each exam (p1, p2, final) counts for 25% of your grade.  We then rank the whole class, do a rough letter grade based on the distribution of letter grades from previous years, and then fine-tune to deal with individual special cases.  The mean is usually a B/B- and we very rarely give grades lower than C-.  Very high and very low grades (like A+ or D) are always determined by hand, not based on some sort of formula.  

Administration

• Course overview
• Course schedule and lecture notes
• Newsgroup: cornell.class.cs414
• Mail the course staff at cs414@cs.cornell.edu
• Homework assignments 
• Course staff information
• Prerequisites

TextBook

Operating Systems Concepts, 6th Edition, Silvershatz, Galvin and Gagne, "Windows XP Update".  Wiley, 2003.

Note: Older editions are fine too, but you'll need to figure out the page numbering on your own in that case.  They haven't really changed this book much since the 5th Edition, and we won't do much with the Windows XP material that was added in 2003.  Carpenter Library has at least one copy on reserve.  But be careful to check the title and author list.  There are several books with similar titles.

• Project 6
• Assignment
• Project Files: minithread6.zip
• 11/05/01 Lecture Slides
• Project 5 (device.h/device.cpp revised as of 10/31/01):
• Assignment
• Project Files: minithread5.zip
• 10/15/01 Lecture Slides
• Project 4:
• Assignment
• Project Files: minithread4.zip
• 10/01/01 Lecture Slides
• Project 3:
• Assignment
• Project Files: minithread3.zip
• 9/17/01 Lecture Slides
• Project 2:
• Assignment
• Project Files: minithread.zip purify.zip
• 9/10/01 Lecture Slides
• Project 1 (Part B Revised As Of 9/4/01 Before Class):
• Assignment
• Project Files
• 9/3/01 Lecture Slides
• Tools & Style: 
• Using CVS in CSUGLab
• C Style Guide 
• C for Java Programmers 
• Tips and tricks for the @migo 

• Please continue to keep an eye on the newsgroup

• Metcalfe & Boggs Ethernet 
• Saltzer, Reed & Clark End-to-End Arguments in System Design 
• Hong et al. Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System 
• Bershad et al. Extensibility, Safety and Performance in the SPIN Operating System 
• Lampson Hints for Computer System Design 

• Intel Architecture Manual

1.Basic Architecture 2.Instruction Set Reference 3. System Programming
• ARM Architecture Manual 
• ARM Procedure Calling Convention 

• Synchronization Review 
• Errata for Silberschatz & Galvin 
• How to Lose in CS412 (by Andrew Myers) The lessons here are just as applicable to 414.