A New Structure for an Operating Systems Course

Abstract

This report has grown from a seminar which we presented to the Auckland University Computer Science Department in 1995. Though blandly entitled "An Operating Systems Course", it was in fact an account of changes which we had made in the nature of the department's final undergraduate year operating systems course since Alan took charge of it in 1985. Robert joined in 1988 while Alan was on leave; since 1989, we have presented the course jointly except during Alan's further leave in 1996. -- from Introduction.