62.306 Systems Programming - 2003/04

This page is updated frequently as the course progresses. Check last year's pages to see what it might look like by the end of the course in April.

		Last Update
	Review	April 8, 2004
	File Systems	March 26, 2004
	Notes on Protection and Security: Unix and NT	March 17, 2004
	Assignment 9 is now ready. It's due March 26.	March 11, 2004
	Petri Nets -- a tutorial from University of Westminster	Jan 21, 2004
	File descriptors, the file structure and the vnode structure in Unix	Jan 7, 2004
	File handles, handle inheritance, and process creation in Windows NT.	Jan 7, 2004
	Threads in general and in Java	Nov 7, 2003
	Process Creation	Oct 27, 2003
	Synchronization and Communication; Message Passing	Oct 15, 2003
	Polling and Interrupts: shared-memory devices	Sep 29, 2003
	Polling and interrupts: character devices	Sep 29, 2003
	Relocation	Sep 17, 2003
	Fundamentals: interrupts, bounds registers and the interval timer	Sept 9, 2003
	Course Outline	Sep 3, 2003
	Bitcave changes for 2003