IN3000 – Operating Systems
Course description
Changes in the course due to coronavirus
Autumn 2020 and Spring 2021 the exams of most courses at the MN Faculty will be conducted as digital home exams or oral exams, using the normal grading scale. The semester page for your course will be updated with any changes in the form of examination.
Please note that there may be changes in the form of examination for some courses taught Spring 2021. We aim to bring both the course description and the semester page of all courses up to date with correct information by 1 February 2021.
See general guidelines for examination at the MN Faculty autumn 2020.
Course content
This course gives a thorough introduction to operating systems and covers topics like interrupt management, threads and processes, process coordination and synchronization, management of physical and virtual storage, devices and file systems. The exercises cover both analysis of abstractions, and their realization and implementation. During the course, each student will develop a running operating system kernel for an Intel x86 based computer.
Learning outcome
Traditional operating systems (OS) such as UNIX and Windows have been successfully applied since many years in business and research areas. This course will provide the students with an in-depth understanding of the process management of these systems running on a uni-processor machine.
After completing the course you can:
- explain to others how an operating system is built and works,
- use operating system abstractions in your future applications you want to develop,
- use Intel manuals or similar to understand low-level software on their own,
- program routinely with Assembler and C
- write design documents
Admission to the course
Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.
A maximum of 50 students (IN3000 and IN4000 alltogether) can get admission to this course.
Ranking for IN3000:
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Bachelor students at Informatics; programming and system administration
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Bachelor students at Department of Informatics who have the course approved in their study plan
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Bachelor student at Department of Informatics
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Others
Special admission requirements
In addition to fulfilling the Higher Education Entrance Qualification, applicants have to meet the following special admission requirements:
- Mathematics R1 or Mathematics (S1+S2)
The special admission requirements may also be covered by equivalent studies from Norwegian upper secondary school or by other equivalent studies. Read more about special admission requirements (in Norwegian).
Formal prerequisite knowledge
IN2010 – Algorithms and Data Structures/INF2220 – Algorithms and Data Structures (continued)/INF1020 – Algorithms and data structures (discontinued)
Recommended previous knowledge
IN2140 – Introduction to operating systems and data communication
Overlapping courses
- 20 credits overlap with IN4000 – Operating Systems.
- 20 credits overlap with INF3151 – Operating systems (continued).
- 20 credits overlap with INF4151 – Operating systems (continued).
- 10 credits overlap with INF3150 – Operating systems - I (discontinued).
- 10 credits overlap with INF4150 – Operating systems - I (discontinued).
- 10 credits overlap with INF3160 – Operating systems II (discontinued).
- 10 credits overlap with INF4160 – Operating systems II (discontinued).
- 9 credits overlap with INF242.
- 3 credits overlap with IN142.
Teaching
Teaching takes place throughout the semester. 4 hours lectures and 4 hours of problem solving sessions per week.
It is strongly recommended to attend the first lecture since it will be given important information.
There will be given mandatory assignments. Rules for mandatory assignments.
Examination
Six project assignment, where each part consist of one parctical and one theoretical part, twelve deliverables in total. All twelve project assignment must be accepted in order to complete the course. The grade is decided upon the practical parts number 2, 3, 5 and 5 that each counts 25 %.
It will also be counted as one of your three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses: IN4000 – Operating Systems, INF3151 – Operating systems (continued), INF4151 – Operating systems (continued)
Examination support material
No examination support material is allowed.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester. Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass the original examination.