Unix foundations

UNIX Foundations

• The Process and the Kernel

Course Description

• The Goals for this course
• Understand UNIX
• Understand Operating Systems
• Prerequisites:
• COSC 2P13 : Introduction to Operating Systems
• COSC 2P91 : Procedural Programming

Course Description

• An intensive study of computer operating system design
• Multiprogramming
• Time-sharing
• Real-time processing
• Job and task control
• Synchronization of concurrent processes and processors
• Resource scheduling
• Protection
• Management of hierarchical storage.

How to study this course

• Read and remember
• Read the book, remember the concepts and commands
• Think
• Think operating systems as natural administrative agents
• Practice
• Coding with UNIX, use and understand of UNIX commands and get the results

The Textbook Used

• Uresh Vahalia, UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers, Prentice Hall, 1996
• Why we use this book?
• UNIX is one of the most popular operating systems of the world.
• If you understand UNIX, you can understand other operating systems.

References

• William Stallings, Operating Systems,5th Ed., Prentice Hall,2005
• A. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, 2nd ed. Prentice Hall 2001
• Kay A. Robbins and Steven Robbins, UNIX Systems Programming, Prentice Hall,2003
• W. R. Stevens, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Addison Wesley, 1992

Summary of UNIX History

• UNIX

• 3BSD

• SVR2

• SVR3

• 4.2BSD

• 4.3BSD

• 4.4BSD

• SVR4

• SunOS

• Solaris

• 4BSD

• SCO UNIX

• AIX

• HP-UX

• ULTRIX

• Digital UNIX

• XENIX

• SVID

• POSIX

• XPG