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2025-2026 Graduate Catalog

CS 5550 - Operating Systems Principles

3 Semester Hour(s)

This course discusses what operating systems are, what they do, how they are designed and organized. Topics discussed include process management, storage management, I/O systems, file systems, virtual machines. Applications of these concepts in modern operating systems such as Windows and Unix are presented.