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mikal
mikal

Reputation: 75

What is really taught in CS undergraduate OS courses?

I took an undergraduate OS course, but it was really teaching the OS concepts, like memory & process management, file systems, and disk, etc... But doesn’t really go that deep, like how the OS(windows/Linux) kernel is developed and the details of how they work. I’m guessing it’s because the details are too difficult for undergraduates. Is that it?

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Sagar
Sagar

Reputation: 1870

The topics covered in the course you took are indeed those generally seen in a first course in Operating Systems, typically aimed at undergraduates. Truly understanding these topics can be difficult, so the implementation details of an OS (and actually implementing an OS) is generally a separate course whose prerequisite is the first course.

One of the course breakdowns I've seen is:

  1. undergraduate OS (covering the topics you took)
  2. OS Implementation (either undergrad or grad-level)
  3. graduate OS (research focussed)

If your university doesn't offer an OS Implementation course, checkout MIT's OS Implementation course.

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