Reading Assignment 0: OS Fundamentals (1)

Papers to read:

• The UNIX Time­‐Sharing System, Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson, Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1973
• Exokernel: An Operating System Architecture for Application Level Resource Management, Dawson R. Engler, Frans Kaashoek and James O’Toole, Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1995
• Improved Address-Space Switching on Pentium Processors by Transparently Multiplexing User Address Spaces, GMD Technical Report No. 933, 1995
• On Micro-Kernel Construction, J. Liedtke, Proceedings of the 15th ACM, December 1995

Read all of the papers and select two of the papers to write a report for.

Due date for your report: September 4, 2025. No deadline extensions are possible. Bring your printed report to the lecture.

Detailed instructions can be found here.