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 - - -