Your teachers are Hani F. Kamel, IAE J rgen Steensgaard-Madsen, IT, Building 322, room 115. Course rationale Operating systems is a huge area, and only part of it can be covered in this course. Principles and implementations are both important. A model operating system has been preferred over popular ones. Teaching requires a small, clean system.
Popular systems vary too fast.
Well documented code has been required. A book that matches the situation is a must. Experiments should be encouraged, not only on private PCs. It presents principles, documents the code of an actual operating system, and contains a CD with the operating system and its code. A number of classical problems of inter process communication are treated in the book, but since they are fully covered by another course at DTU these will not be dealt with in the lectures.