UCLA CS239--Advanced Operating Systems

Course Materials for Fall, 1999

Textbooks:

Primary:

Advanced Concepts in Operating Systems: Distributed, Database, and Multiprocessor Operating Systems, by Singhal and Shivaratri, 1994.
ASUCLA Textbooks: $95.25 + $7.86 tax(new), $71.00 + $5.86 tax(used;none).
www.amazon.com: $83.12 + $3.95 s/h, [ships in 3-5 weeks].

www.barnesandnoble.com: $88.75 + $3.95 s/h, [ships in 3-5 weeks].

Secondary:

Distributed Operating Systems, by Tanenbaum, 1995.
ASUCLA BookZone: $64 + $5.28 tax(new), [special order, 2-4 weeks delay].
www.amazon.com: $70 + $3.95 s/h [ships in 2-3 days]

Distributed Operating Systems: The Logical Design, by Goscinski, 1991.
ASUCLA Book Zone: $49.50 + $4.08 tax [special order, 2-4 weeks].

Journals:

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems.

IEEE Transactions on Computers.

Conferences:

Third USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), February, 1999.

Eighth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-VII), October, 1998.

16th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (preview), October, 1997.

Second USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), October, 1996.

Seventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-VII), October, 1996.

15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (preview), December, 1995.

Weblists of OS projects:

(UofAriz student) Patrick Bridges' list of OS projects is very extensive.

(UCBerkeley student) Steve Gribble's list of papers (with summaries) is also helpful.


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