Course Support Materials
Project Support: This document describes support available to instructors for assigning projects to students.
Solutions manual and project manual: Available at Pearson Website for this book. Go here for Pearson instructor support Websites for my other books.Go here for Pearson instructor support Websites for the International Edition of this book and my other books.
PowerPoint Slides: The "official" set of slides commissioned for use specifically with this book, developed by Kim Mclaughlin. This is a partial set. The full set is available at the Pearson Instructor Resource Center for this book.
Figures: On-line transparency masters of the figures from the book in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.This is a partial set. The full set is available at the Pearson Instructor Resource Center for this book.
Tables: On-line transparency masters of the tables from the book in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.This is a partial set. The full set is available at the Pearson Instructor Resource Center for this book.
OS/161: This site contains the freeware that needs to be downloaded to use OS/161, plus documents and assignments. The Pearson IRC for this book contains additional assignments and a number of student handouts. 
BACI: BACI simulates concurrent process execution and supports binary and counting semaphores and monitors. BACI is accompanied by a number of project assignments 
Distributed BACI: Distributed BACI extends the BACI interface to allow for distributed algorithm development.
NACHOS: Nachos is an instructional operating system together with a series of assignments that can be used to provide hands-on experience with modern OS concepts. NACHOS overview, course notes, system code, and set of assignments are at this site. Made available for free by UC Berkeley. Professor Scott Stoller of SUNY Stony Brook has created Nachos-dfs to provide enhanced features for distributed file system projects.
Computer Science Student Resource Site: Help and advice for the long-suffering, overworked student.
Errata sheet: Latest list of errors, updated at most monthly. File name is Errata-OS8e-mmyy. If you spot any errors, please contact me at 
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A Discussion of Textbook Cost Myths: From the Text and Academic Authors Association.
Mailing ListA moderated mailing list has been set up so that instructors using this book can exchange information, suggestions, and questions with each other and with the author. To subscribe, send a blank email to ws-os-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. You will receive a confirmation message. Just reply to this message and your subscription will be complete. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to ws-os-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com. To post a message, send to ws-os@yahoogroups.com.Note: You should receive a reply to your subscription request in a few hours, asking for confirmation. If not, try again. The confirmation email asks you to confirm either by replying to the email or by going to a web link. The web link is more reliable. If you reply by email and do not receive a subsequent email confirming your subscription, try again.
OS CoursesInstructors might find these web sites for courses taught using this book useful. I would appreciate hearing about web sites for other courses.
CMSC 442 Operating Systems Longwood U. Includes labs.
CSCI-GA.2250 Operating Systems New York U. Includes labs.
FIT2070 Operating systems Monash U., Australia.
SI 411 Operating Systems US Naval Academy. Includes projects.
Operating Systems 192110452 U. of Twente Includes lab exercises and PPT slides.
CS322 - Operating Systems Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport.
CS311 - Operating Systems Concepts Binghamton U. Includes lab exercises.
CS 345 Operating Systems Brigham Young U. Interesting programming assignments.
CSC-440 - Operating Systems U. of Northern Colorado.
8894 Real-Time Operating Systems Memorial University of Newfoundland.
CSC 284 Operating Systems Missouri U. of Science and Technology. Lot of useful material.
CS241 System Programming U. of Illinois. Slides.
Operating Systems U. of Helsinki. Tasks and projects.
CSIT 431 Intro Operating Systems SUNY Fredonia, Some useful tutorials.
CSCE 444 Operating Systems Pacific Lutheran U, Programming assignments.
CS418 Operating Systems Montana State U., Assignments, lecture notes.
343 Operating Systems Kutztown U., Kutztown, PA. Interesting set of powerpoint projects, plus some good lecture notes on locality.
CS40 Operating Systems Santa Monica College. Some useful project and course note material.
C4760 Operating Systems U. of Missouri, St. Louis. Contains lecture notes, good set of links.
SYSC 4001 Operating Systems Carleton U. in Ottowa. Contains lecture slides.
CS623 Operating Systems Brooklyn Polytechnic U. Contains good set of handouts.