[mod.conferences] 4.3 Unix Internals Class

sjh@purdue.edu (Steve Holmes) (04/23/87)

[Note from the moderator: this is the first class posting I've made to this 
 group -- I'm not sure it is appropriate however, so if you have strong 
 feelings either way please either mail them to me or post them to news.groups
 for discussion.                             -- Dave Taylor  (taylor@hplabs) ]

Purdue University will sponsor an intensive 5-day 4.3BSD Unix internals
course the week of June 1 through June 5 in West Lafayette, Ind.  The 
course is run by the Institute for Advanced Professional Studies of
Cambridge, Mass., and is taught by Dr. Thomas W. Doeppner of Brown 
University.

The topics covered will include:

I/O: Basic organization and flow of control; Kernel data structures; 
	System calls and their implementation; block I/O; raw I/O; 
	Terminal I/O; writing device drivers; configuration tables.

Process Management: Internal Representation of Processes; Process States
	and queues; Context saving and restoring; Run-queue scheduling;
	Swapping; Resource Allocation.

Virtual Memory: Pagedaemon and Swapper; I/O for paging; Page Replacement
	Policy.

Interprocess Communication: Sockets and protocols; Network interfaces.

And more ...

IAPS is organizing the registration for the course.  For more info contact

Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
55 Wheeler Street
Cambridge, Mass.  02138

Phone: (617) 497-2075

Or email your *complete* mailing address and phone number to me and I will
forward it to IAPS.


Steve Holmes
Manager of Research Computing Facilities	sjh@cs.purdue.EDU
Department of Computer Science	        	purdue!sjh
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Ind.   47907

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