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Lectures

Week	Topic	Print
01	Microkernels and L4 (Introduction)
02	L4 Programming (OKL4 API in detail)
03	OS Execution Models
	Why Threads are a Bad Idea (for most purposes)
	Why Events are a Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers) Papers: [von Behren et al., 2003]
04	Caches (What every OS Designer Must Know) Papers: [Clark, Emer 1985], [Uhlig et al. 1994], [Wiggins 2003] Book: [Schimmel 1994]
05	Security (An advanced introduction) [Saltzer and Schroeder 1975], [Arbaugh et al. 1997], [DoD 1986] [Shapiro and Weber 2000]
06	Virtual Machines [Barham et al., 2003], [Waldspurger, 2002], [Adams and Agesen, 2006]
07	Device Drivers [Swift et al. 2003] [Leslie et al. 2005]
	Automatic Device Driver Synthesis with Termite
08	Performance Evaluation [Fleming and Wallace, 1986]
09	Mac OS X IOAudio
10	Microkernel Design (A walk through selected aspects of kernel design and seL4)
11	SMP and Locking [Anderson, 1990]
12	OS Research at NICTA

References in square brackets are recommended readings from the papers list.

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