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CSE121 builds on the material covered in CSE 120, Principles of Computer Operating Systems. We will revisit the major themes of the prior course, such as file systems, memory systems, concurrency, and communications. This time through, however, we'll concentrate more on the tension between the specification of the system and the properties of the environment upon which the system is built. We'll use Unix as a case study, but we'll also look at other systems, including those that are just now being developed in research laboratories and universities.

Prereqs: CSE 100, CSE 120, and CSE 141, or their equivalent, and programming experience with C for the term project.