CSCI 3323 (Principles of Operating Systems):
Useful/Interesting Links and Other Resources

Course-related links

Zoom meetings and recordings.
Zoom info for my office hours.
Script to mail files for homework submission mail-files. Useful if working remotely with only a text-mode connection. Instructions for usage here.

(With thanks to Dr. Howland, who supplied most of these links.)

The Linux Kernel (online book, fairly introductory, and a nice description of how some of the ideas discussed in Tanenbaum play out in a real operating system)
The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate (Minix versus Linux, as discussed in comp.os.minix in 1992)
The Linux Kernel Archives (kernel source for various releases).
Local copy of (very old) kernel source in /users/cs4320/LinuxSource/linux-2.6.18.3/.

A small gallery of pictures (mainframe and related hardware):
- ENIAC.
- IBM mainframes.
- Keypunch machine (for humans to punch data into cards); video.
- Card reader/punch (for computer to read / punch cards).
- Line printer.
- Early mainframe-connected terminal.
- Early disk drive with removable/mountable disk.
- The machine room in Halsell, circa 19?? (photo by way of Dr. Howland).
E.W. Dijkstra:
- UT's Dijkstra home page.
- More about the operating system written by Dijkstra and his students: EWD 126 and EWD 196.

Smashing the stack for fun and profit (dated but interesting explanation of how buffer overflows are a security risk).