TOPIC                                     APPROX. # of 50 min LECTURES 



Introduction  .............................................. 1
(Chapter 1)



The Hardware Interface ..................................... 1
(Chapter 2)



Basic System Calls  ........................................ 3
(Chapter 3)



Implementation of a simple OS  ............................. 4
(Chapter 5)



Design Issues .............................................. 1
(Chapter 4)



Multithreading, mutual exclusion and 
Intro. to Multiprocessor OS  ............................... 4
(Chapter 6)



Interprocess Communications ................................ 3
(Chapter 7)



Processes (Scheduling, Deadlock and ........................ 4
Synchronization)
(Chapter 8)



Memory Management .......................................... 2
(Chapter 10)



Virtual Memory ............................................. 6
(Chapters 11 and 12)



I/O devices and systems .................................... 2
(Chapters 14 and 15)



File systems ............................................... 5 
(Chapters 16 and 17)



More design issues ......................................... 1
(Chapter 9)