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Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
jan 10 LEC 1: Introduction, OS Abstractions PREP: Read Operating System Concepts (OSC) 1-1.10	jan 11	jan 12 LEC 2: Operating System Structure PREP: Read OSC 2-2.7 and xv6 chapter 0; do Homework	jan 13	jan 14 LEC 3: x86 Processor Basics PREP: Read xv6 chapter 1 and IA32 guide; do Homework OUT: Lab 1: Booting and Managing CPUs
jan 17 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day	jan 18	jan 19 LEC 4: Processes and Memory Allocation (handout) PREP: Read OSC chapter 3 and xv6 chapter 2; do Homework	jan 20	jan 21 DUE: Lab 1 Individual First Cut
jan 24 LEC 5: Modes, Stacks, and Traps (handout) PREP: Read xv6 chapter 3; do Homework	jan 25	jan 26 LEC 6: Multiprocessors and Locking PREP: Read OSC 6-6.4 and xv6 chapter 4; do Homework	jan 27	jan 28 DUE: Lab 1 Team Solution OUT: Lab 2: Processes and Synchronization
jan 31 LEC 7: Scheduling PREP: Read OSC chapter 5 and xv6 chapter 5 through section "Code: Scheduling"; do Homework	feb 1	feb 2 LEC 8: Process Coordination PREP: Read OSC chapters 6,7 and the rest of xv6 chapter 5; do Homework	feb 3	feb 4 DUE: Lab 2 First Cut
feb 7 LEC 9: Address Translation PREP: Read OSC chapter 8 and IA32 chapter 3	feb 8	feb 9 LEC 10: Virtual Memory Management PREP: Read OSC chapter 9	feb 10	feb 11 DUE: Lab 2 Team Solution OUT: Lab 3: Virtual Memory
feb 14 LEC 11: Threads PREP: Read OSC chapter 4	feb 15	feb 16 LEC 12: Files and Disk I/O PREP: Read xv6 chapter 6 and chapter 7; do Homework OSC: chapters 12, 13	feb 17	feb 18
feb 21 LEC 13: File Naming PREP: Read xv6 chapter 7 and xv6 chapter 8; do Homework	feb 22	feb 23 LEC 14: Program Loading and Dynamic Linking PREP: Read xv6 chapter 9; do Homework	feb 24	feb 25 DUE: Lab 3 First Cut
feb 28 LEC 15: File system performance and reliability PREP: Read Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem.	mar 1	mar 2 LEC 16:	mar 3	mar 4 DUE: Lab 3 Team Solution
mar 7 Spring Break	mar 8	mar 9	mar 10	mar 11 OUT: Lab 4: Files and I/O
mar 14 Spring Break	mar 15	mar 16	mar 17	mar 18
mar 21 LEC 17: Performance and durability PREP: Read Rethink the sync; no homework	mar 22	mar 23 MIDTERM: open book and notes. Last year's midterm	mar 24	mar 25 DUE: Lab 4 First Cut
mar 28 LEC 18: Microkernels and capabilities PREP: Read KeyKOS, Confused deputy; no homework	mar 29	mar 30 LEC 19: Language/OS co-design PREP: Read Singularity and Language Support for Message-based Communication; no homework	mar 31	apr 1 DUE: Lab 4 Team Solution OUT: Lab 5: Distributed Computing (no joke!)
apr 4 LEC 20: Bugs PREP: Read Klee; no homework	apr 5	apr 6 LEC 21: Scheduling PREP: Read Eliminating Receive Livelock; no homework	apr 7	apr 8 DUE: Lab 5 First Cut
apr 11 LEC 22: Multi-processor coordination: scalable locks PREP: Read MCS; do Homework	apr 12	apr 13 LEC 23: Multi-processor coordination: lock free PREP: Read Read-Copy Update; do Homework	apr 14	apr 15 DUE: Lab 5 Team Solution OUT: Lab 6: Final Project
apr 18 LEC 24: Virtual Machines PREP: Read Software vs Hardware Virtualization; Homework: final project proposal	apr 19	apr 20 LEC 25: Using virtual machines PREP: Read Backtracking Intrusions; do Homework	apr 21	apr 22
apr 25 Reading period	apr 26	apr 27	apr 28	apr 29 DUE: Lab 6 Team Project
may 2 Finals period	may 3	may 4	may 5	may 6
may 9 OS Bakeoff: 10am-12pm	may 10	may 11	may 12	may 13