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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos Wikipedia's page on "The Mother of all Demos"] | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos Wikipedia's page on "The Mother of all Demos"] | ||
===[[DistOS 2019F 2019-09-16|September 16, 2019]]=== | ===[[DistOS 2019F 2019-09-16|September 16, 2019]] (online)=== | ||
The Alto: | The Alto: | ||
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/distos/2014w/alto.pdf Thacker et al., "Alto: A Personal computer" (1979)] ([https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xeroxparcttoAPersonalComputer_6560658 archive.org]) | * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/distos/2014w/alto.pdf Thacker et al., "Alto: A Personal computer" (1979)] ([https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xeroxparcttoAPersonalComputer_6560658 archive.org]) | ||
===[[DistOS 2019F 2019-09-18|September 18, 2019]]=== | ===[[DistOS 2019F 2019-09-18|September 18, 2019]] (online)=== | ||
Multics & UNIX: | Multics & UNIX: | ||
Revision as of 14:06, 1 September 2019
Course Outline
Here is the course outline.
Project Help
To develop your literature review or research proposal, start with a single research paper that you find interesting and that is related to distributed operating systems in some way.
To begin selecting a paper, I suggest that you:
- search on Google Scholar using keywords relating to your interests, and/or
- browse the proceedings of major conferences that publish work related to distributed operating systems.
The main operating system conferences are OSDI and ACM SOSP (sosp.org,ACM DL). Note that not all the work here is on distributed operating systems! Also, many other conferences publish some work related to distributed operating systems, e.g. NSDI.
To help you write a literature review or the background of a research paper, read the following:
- Harvey, "What Is a Literature Review?" (DOC) (PPT)
- Taylor, "The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It"
Class Schedule & Readings
September 4, 2019 (in person)
None
September 9, 2019 (online)
The Early Internet:
- Robert E. Kahn, "Resource-Sharing Computer Communications Networks" (1972) (DOI)
- Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing (1972) - video
September 11, 2019 (online)
The Mother of All Demos:
- Doug Engelbart Institute, "Doug's 1968 Demo". You may want to focus on the highlights or the annotated clips.
- Wikipedia's page on "The Mother of all Demos"
September 16, 2019 (online)
The Alto:
September 18, 2019 (online)
Multics & UNIX:
- Wikipedia article on Multics
- Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson, "The UNIX Time-Sharing System" (1974)
- Richard Jensen, "Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure" (2019, Ars Technica)
Optional: Browse around the Multicians website.