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2021/2022 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CS 480 - Operating Systems

Units: 3

Prerequisite(s): CS 210  and CS 240 . 

File system, I/O management, interprocess communication, memory management, processes and threads, program structures, thread synchronization, virtual memory. Formerly numbered CS 570.