Welcome Notices

Alternative Wednesday Recording up Again (Posted by Thomas, Wed Jun 16)

The audio issues with the Burrows theatre continue. I've uploaded the Zoom recording again. I will try to remember to activate video (of me) for the Zoom recording in the future.


 
Lecture Slides Uploaded (Posted by Thomas, Tue Jun 16)

The system-call lecture slides are uploaded.


 
Assignment 1 Released (Posted by Thomas, Mon Jun 15)

Assignment 1 is released!

See the menu bar (usually on the left side of this page).

Please have a look and let us know about any issues or confusion on the forum.


 
Monday Lecture Slides up (Posted by Thomas, Sun Jun 14)

Monday's lecture slides are up. The tutorial solutions for week 2 and questions for week 3 are also up. We're still working on assignment 1.


 
Assignment 1 Out Soon (Posted by Thomas, Fri Jun 12)

Hi everyone. We promised assignment 1 out near the end of the week. We're doing some final testing and tweaking now, and hope to have it to you really soon. Sorry about the delays.


 
Week 2 Lecture Announcements (Posted by Thomas, Tue Jun 9)

The Wednesday Echo360 auto-recording has come out silent, again. The Zoom recording seems OK, and we have now (edited: now finished) linked it to the Echo360 lecture set.

The remaining notices were also mentioned in the lecture.

Assignment 0 is still out. Congratulations to those who have downloaded the sources and figured out or reported technology issues. Great job to those who have been helping troubleshoot technology issues on the forum!

The King's birthday in week 2 slows us down a little, so we won't get assignment 1 released until later in the week. The concurrency content we've covered so far is relevant, and next week's lectures on context switches and system calls are very relevant.


 
Week 2 Lecture (Posted by Thomas, Tue Jun 9)

Lecture slides for tomorrow's lecture (the only week 2 lecture) are up.


 
Week 1 Lectures (Posted by Thomas, Wed Jun 3)

Extended OS lectures start from tomorrow. Gernot Heiser will be giving the extended lectures.

We had a number of IT issues with the first Wednesday lecture. The zoom recording worked from the 20-minute mark. The automatic Echo360 recording seems to have no audio at all. The zoom recording is now uploaded to Echo360. I have now recorded an intro that replaces the lost first 10-15 minutes, that will appear on Echo360 shortly.

Aside from the video, we hope that the number of IT issues is reducing. Contact us (e.g. on the admin email account) if you're reading this and still can't get access to something.

Thanks to tutor and admin Ivan who has upgraded the Mac support for OS/161. Follow the setup guide from the assignment 0 material to find out more.

Monday next week is the King's birthday holiay (thanks Charles). No lecture on Monday, so for those not doing E-OS, catch you all next Wednesday.


 
Tutorials start Week 2 (Posted by Thomas, Tue Jun 2)

Reminder: tutorials start in week 2. The central timetable doesn't know this and so you may see week 1 tutorial times on my.unsw, which you can safely ignore.


 
More Lecture Slides Up (Posted by Thomas, Tue Jun 2)

The lecture slides for the "concurrency" lecture are up, and the slides for processes and threads have been edited a bit.


 
Tech Issues Hopefully Sorted (Posted by Thomas, Tue Jun 2)

Yesterday I mentioned that a few people were having issues connecting to the various websites (moodle, discourse, Echo360, the moin-moin wiki). It seems that all those issues are getting sorted out, and we're not in contact with anyone who still can't connect. The moodle link in yesterday's notice may help.

If you're still having IT issues, contact us on the class admin account, cs3231 (at) cse.unsw.edu.au.

The Echo360 recording for Monday seems to have come out OK. We'll use the same technology (but a different zoom link) for Wednesday morning. Catch you then!


 
1st lecture done, warmup assignment up, tech issues (Posted by Thomas, Mon Jun 1)

Hi everyone. Thanks to everyone who made it to the 1st lecture, in person or on Zoom. We'll continue to work to smooth out the Zoom audio setup. We've gone through the initial "structure" lecture and got as far through the "threading" content as the "burger" example.

The warmup assignment "Assignment 0" is now available. Congratulations to the students who may have found some technology bugs already. We'll get to them.

The bigger issue is that multiple students seem to have issues accessing moodle, the discourse instance, the wiki or all of the above. We will continue to investigate and should get this fixed up soon. Some systems get a bit confused by the multiple course codes, which might explain some of the issues. Hopefully we'll have updates on this soon.

This URL may assist in accessing the moodle the first time: https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/course/view.php?id=99804 . That shouldn't be needed but it does seem to have helped one student.


 
Slides of 1st Lecture Up (Posted by Thomas, Sun May 31)

The slides for the 1st lecture are now uploaded. You can find them on the lectures subpage (under "Courseware" in the menu).

I am still thinking of rearranging some of the content connected to the hamburger analogy in the threads lecture.


 
Welcome and Intro Lecture (Posted by Thomas, Fri May 29)

Welcome to OS! I've put up a short (30-minute) online-only mini-lecture on Echo360. It covers some basics about the course prior to the OS-related content starting on Monday. If you have time, have a look, or scan through the slides. Info about lectures is summarised in the lectures page (under "Courseware" in the menu). Most lectures will be hosted on Echo360, with exceptions clarified on the lectures page. You will need to go via moodle to get to Echo360. Let us know if that isn't working.

And catch you for the start of the term on Monday!


 
Discourse Forum (Posted by Thomas, Mon Apr 26)
This year we'll be using Discourse rather than Ed for our forum. There is already a link to the discourse forums on the menu (under "Support"). We will post again once the discourse forum is activated. Apologies if you see any old references to Ed/Edstem forums (or Piazza or even older websites). If there are issues connecting to the forum, let us know.
 
Welcome to OS in 2026! (Posted by Thomas, Mon Apr 26)
Hi everyone, and welcome to the website for OS in 2026. This website is a skeleton for now with some miscellaneous resources copied over from last year. We will fill it in with lectures and other material as the course runs, with pointers to the relevant updates here.