Groups of 3 for the papers?

I was just wondering if we are allowed to do the papers in groups of 3 or if it is restricted to only pairs. Thanks!

First (benchmarking) assignment now available

Hi all.  The first assignment is now available from the class home page or directly at:

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/736/f2016/paper1.html

We will discuss this in class today.

--bart

Communicating Sequential Processes Problems in Go

Thomas Kappler implemented the problems from "Communicating Sequential Processes" in Go. Though there are some differences, which the developer mentions, I found it a helpful (and more readable) supplement to the paper. I've added the link below.

https://github.com/thomas11/csp/blob/master/csp.go

Lecture notes on TLB's

If you'd like a bit of background materials on TLB's, you can find them at

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/537/lecturenotes/s17.html

 

How does an OS control entry and exit from the kernel?

The Multics paper talks about the mechanisms used by the OS and hardware to control entering and exiting a kernel.

If you've never had a chance to study that topic, I have some lecture notes that might be of help:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/537/lecturenotes/enterexit.html

See you in class.

Terminology in the Multics paper

Ok, what is a "computer utility"?

And, if you're reading carefully, you'll notice they also use another term for the same thing, "supervisor program".

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