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11 October 2010
- 19:0419:04, 11 October 2010 diff hist 0 SCS Curriculum Reinvention Committee →Reducing the Core Size
- 19:0419:04, 11 October 2010 diff hist +3,826 SCS Curriculum Reinvention Committee →Reducing the Core Size
- 18:5418:54, 11 October 2010 diff hist +26 SCS Curriculum Reinvention Committee No edit summary
8 October 2010
- 19:2919:29, 8 October 2010 diff hist +119 Talk:COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 10 No edit summary
- 19:2519:25, 8 October 2010 diff hist −5 Talk:COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 2 No edit summary
- 19:2419:24, 8 October 2010 diff hist +204 Talk:COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 2 No edit summary
- 15:4315:43, 8 October 2010 diff hist +224 Talk:COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 3 →Group 3
7 October 2010
- 18:5818:58, 7 October 2010 diff hist −11 Operating Systems (Fall 2010) →Lectures and Deadlines
- 18:5818:58, 7 October 2010 diff hist +39 Operating Systems (Fall 2010) →Lectures and Deadlines
5 October 2010
- 17:5317:53, 5 October 2010 diff hist −42 SCS Curriculum Reinvention Committee →New Course Description
4 October 2010
- 17:3117:31, 4 October 2010 diff hist +50 COMP 3000 Lab 3 2010 No edit summary
- 17:2917:29, 4 October 2010 diff hist +134 COMP 3000 Lab 3 2010 →IPC
- 17:2817:28, 4 October 2010 diff hist +263 COMP 3000 Lab 3 2010 →IPC
- 17:2717:27, 4 October 2010 diff hist +126 COMP 3000 Lab 3 2010 No edit summary
- 17:2617:26, 4 October 2010 diff hist +186 COMP 3000 Lab 3 2010 No edit summary
30 September 2010
- 16:3816:38, 30 September 2010 diff hist 0 Operating Systems (Fall 2010) →Lectures and Deadlines
- 15:3515:35, 30 September 2010 diff hist +89 Operating Systems (Fall 2010) No edit summary
28 September 2010
- 18:0218:02, 28 September 2010 diff hist −107 SCS Curriculum Reinvention Committee →Rationale
- 18:0218:02, 28 September 2010 diff hist −112 SCS Curriculum Reinvention Committee →Rationale
- 17:5317:53, 28 September 2010 diff hist −1 SCS Curriculum Reinvention Committee →New Course Description
- 17:4917:49, 28 September 2010 diff hist +43 SCS Curriculum Reinvention Committee →Rationale
- 17:4017:40, 28 September 2010 diff hist +1 SCS Curriculum Reinvention Committee →New Course Description
- 17:3817:38, 28 September 2010 diff hist +20 SCS Curriculum Reinvention Committee →New Course Description
27 September 2010
- 19:4419:44, 27 September 2010 diff hist +274 N COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 12 Created page with '=Question= There have been multiple attempts to have operating systems use databases or database-like stores. What have been some of the major past attempts at this? What was th…'
- 19:4419:44, 27 September 2010 diff hist +146 N COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 11 Created page with '=Question= Why are object stores an increasingly attractive building block for filesystems (as opposed to block-based stores)? Explain. =Answer='
- 19:4419:44, 27 September 2010 diff hist +170 N COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 10 Created page with '=Question= How do the constraints of flash storage affect the design of flash-optimized file systems? Explain by contrasting with hard disk-based file systems. =Answer='
- 19:4319:43, 27 September 2010 diff hist +288 N COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 9 Created page with '=Question= What requirements distinguish the Zettabyte File System (ZFS) from traditional file systems? How are those requirements realized in ZFS, and how do other operating sy…'
- 19:4319:43, 27 September 2010 diff hist +178 N COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 8 Created page with '=Question= What is the history of POSIX Threads (pthreads)? Consider - does this history explain why UNIX was so late to implement support for multithreaded processes? =Answer='
- 19:4319:43, 27 September 2010 diff hist +274 N COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 7 Created page with '=Question= How is it possible for systems to supports millions of threads or more within a single process? What are the key design choices that make such systems work - and how …'
- 19:4219:42, 27 September 2010 diff hist +192 N COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 6 Created page with '=Question= What are some examples of notable systems that have failed due to flawed efforts at mutual exclusion and/or race conditions? How significant was the failure in each c…'
- 19:4219:42, 27 September 2010 diff hist +105 N COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 5 Created page with '=Question= Compare and contrast the evolution of the default BSD/FreeBSD and Linux schedulers. =Answer='
- 19:4219:42, 27 September 2010 diff hist +231 N COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 4 Created page with '=Question= What "operating systems" have been implemented in the following languages: LISP, Modula-3, Smalltalk, Java? To what extent do these systems match the capabilities of …'
- 19:4119:41, 27 September 2010 diff hist +235 N COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 3 Created page with '=Question= To what extent do modern Windows systems provide mainframe-equivalent functionality? What about Windows coupled with add-on commercial products such as VMWare's virtu…'
- 19:4019:40, 27 September 2010 diff hist +290 N COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 2 Created page with '=Question= How do the available system calls in modern versions of the Linux Kernel (2.6.30+) compare with the system calls available in the earliest versions of UNIX? How has th…'
- 19:3919:39, 27 September 2010 diff hist +221 N COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 1 Created page with '=Question= To what extent can exokernels be seen as a compromise between virtual machines and microkernels? Explain how the key design characteristics of these three system archi…'
- 19:0719:07, 27 September 2010 diff hist +2,853 N COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Questions Created page with '# [[COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 1|To what extent can exokernels be seen as a compromise between virtual machines and microkernels? Explain how the key design characteristics…'
- 19:0319:03, 27 September 2010 diff hist +37 Operating Systems (Fall 2010) →Lectures and Deadlines
26 September 2010
- 18:1118:11, 26 September 2010 diff hist 0 COMP 3000 Lab 2 2010 →Permissions
- 18:1018:10, 26 September 2010 diff hist 0 COMP 3000 Lab 2 2010 →Processes
- 18:0918:09, 26 September 2010 diff hist +1 COMP 3000 Lab 2 2010 →Processes
- 18:0818:08, 26 September 2010 diff hist +180 COMP 3000 Lab 2 2010 No edit summary
- 18:0218:02, 26 September 2010 diff hist +47 COMP 3000 Lab 2 2010 No edit summary
- 18:0018:00, 26 September 2010 diff hist +1 COMP 3000 Lab 2 2010 No edit summary
- 17:5217:52, 26 September 2010 diff hist +7,746 N COMP 3000 Lab 2 2010 Created page with '==Part A (Mandatory)== ===The Shell=== The shell or command line provides a text interface for running programs. While not as visually pleasing as a graphical interface, the s…'
- 13:0013:00, 26 September 2010 diff hist +25 Operating Systems (Fall 2010) →Lectures and Deadlines
25 September 2010
- 04:4504:45, 25 September 2010 diff hist +391 COMP 3000 Assignment 1 2010 No edit summary
- 04:3904:39, 25 September 2010 diff hist +2,397 N COMP 3000 Assignment 1 2010 Created page with '# To what extent can exokernels be seen as a compromise between virtual machines and microkernels? Explain how the key design characteristics of how these three system architect…'
23 September 2010
- 18:2018:20, 23 September 2010 diff hist +32 Operating Systems (Fall 2010) →Lectures and Deadlines
- 18:1918:19, 23 September 2010 diff hist +6 Operating Systems (Fall 2010) →Lectures and Deadlines