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15 October 2010

• 13:3513:35, 15 October 2010 diff hist 0‎ m COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 5 ‎ Protected "COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 5" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))
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14 October 2010

• 15:4115:41, 14 October 2010 diff hist +709‎ Talk:COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 8 ‎No edit summary
• 13:3913:39, 14 October 2010 diff hist +280‎ COMP 3000 Midterm review 2010 ‎No edit summary
• 13:3813:38, 14 October 2010 diff hist +330‎ COMP 3000 Midterm review 2010 ‎ →‎Lab 3 Questions
• 13:2413:24, 14 October 2010 diff hist +830‎ N COMP 3000 Midterm review 2010 ‎ Created page with "==Lab 1 Questions== # What are the key advantages of installing VM-specific device drivers in a guest OS? # Typically, what does a guest OS's hard disk look like to the host OS?…"
• 12:3712:37, 14 October 2010 diff hist +34‎ Operating Systems (Fall 2010) ‎ →‎Lectures and Deadlines

12 October 2010

• 03:1903:19, 12 October 2010 diff hist +64‎ Talk:COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 4 ‎ →‎Discussion
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• 03:0603:06, 12 October 2010 diff hist +464‎ Talk:COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 2 ‎No edit summary
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11 October 2010

• 21:3321:33, 11 October 2010 diff hist +53‎ N Talk:COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Questions ‎ Created page with "No discussion on this question? --~~~"
• 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
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8 October 2010

• 19:2919:29, 8 October 2010 diff hist +119‎ Talk:COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 10 ‎No edit summary
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• 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
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• 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
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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…'