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CISC 3320 Operating Systems (Briskman)

Fall 2022 OER

Professor

Professor: Miriam Briskman
Office hours:
Email: briskman@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu
Semester: Fall 2022
Class Meeting:

Course Description

Design and implementation of operating systems for large computers. Multiprogramming, multiprocessing, time sharing. Resource allocation and scheduling. Communications, conversational computing, computer networks. Memory protection, interrupts, segmentation, paging, and virtual memories.

Course Textbook

No textbook purchase is required. This is an OER/ZTC course which means all course materials are freely available to you. All content is either open educational resources (OER), zero textbook cost (ZTC) or library resources.

Course website with readings

Books/Readings

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NYTimes logo.Items located on the NYTimes site, access with free CUNY account.

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Syllabi for CISC 3320, section TR3

Syllabi for CISC 3320, section TR8

Creative Commons License Unless otherwise noted this Open Educational Resource (OER) CISC 3320 Operating Systems (Briskman) was created and curated by Professor Miriam Briskman and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. (Some documents require Adobe Acrobat Reader. )

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