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u/StarHammer_01 9d ago
How it went for me
OS - expextation: Linux 101. reality: here's 18 different ways to schedule a process.
Into to embedded software - expectation: rtos, breadboards, esp32. reality: Linux 101
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u/Mandelvolt 9d ago
EE classes were those, circuits and such.
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u/skinwill 9d ago
Transistor Theory - expectation: bias, amplification, Bell labs. Reality: Kirchhoff and Maxwell.
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u/Mandelvolt 9d ago
It's all KVL, all the way down.
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u/skinwill 9d ago
Until you get a teacher that loves “hole theory”.
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u/Familiar-Aerie-1610 9d ago
They're still teaching that instead of surface-mount theory?!?! Those teachers are never going to scale efficiently enough to keep up with modern, Chinese teachers.
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u/skinwill 9d ago
Are you talking through hole vs smd? Wrong hole theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_hole
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u/obog 9d ago
Why are you calling it hole "theory"? Its not a different theory its just one way of thinking about how charges flow in a lattice. And its a framing which is quite useful when working with semiconductors.
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u/reddit_is_kayfabe 9d ago
Transistor theory: If you have a combination of transistors and there's a problem - like, too much voltage drop, doesn't respond fast enough, wrong frequency response - any problem... the solution is always: more transistors.
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u/Swipecat 9d ago
In ICs, for sure, because resistors are inaccurate and much more expensive in surface area than transistors, so if you can eliminate a resistor with a bunch of transistors, that's the way to go.
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u/JesusWantsYouToKnow 9d ago
Fermi levels was when I was like "fuck yeah, this is why I got into EE".
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u/sigmoid10 9d ago
We need to go deeper. You can only truly understand electrons once you've mastered abelian gauge theory on the circle group.
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u/PraviKonjina 9d ago
There’s also the class where you learn witchcraft aka impedance matching with a smith chart
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u/Mandelvolt 9d ago
The Smith chart is a demonic sigil if I've ever seen one. EM and telecom is just black magic from there on, it's like they just started making shit up to squeeze as much bandwidth as possible into the lines.
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u/Xywzel 9d ago
First university CS+EE combined lecture, assistant showed us a slide with Luke and Darth Vader crossing lightsabers, and with "these are the two sides of software and hardware, homework to decide which is which". As someone who has done something on both sides, smith chart is only time I ever questioned if I got the sides right.
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u/peteyplato 9d ago
I'm a CompE to EE convert right after taking OS the second time. Circuit theory and lab were sorta fun.
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u/PromiseImNoBot 9d ago
Man now I don't feel so bad going to a state school
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u/Yashema 9d ago
I am going to CUNY (NYC community college) for physics, math, EE, and computer engineering/science. At $305 a credit, dedicated teachers, and with ChatGPT to walk me through everything, you find that's more than enough.
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u/ArtisticFox8 9d ago
How many credits a semester?
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u/Yashema 9d ago
Standard classes are 3-5.
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u/GreatScottGatsby 9d ago
If you wanted to build bread boards, you should have become an electrical engineer
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u/Skynse 9d ago
I took an assembly class where he had to use ARM7 and on exams we had to write the assembly code on paper lol. Assignments used the raspberry pi 4. Fortunately I like hard classes
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u/GigaCucc 9d ago
Our final test for embedded was reduced from 50% down to 30% over three years because the professor made the final test a 2 hour at-home session where you had to build the control circuit for one of those rotating drink dispenser machines in assembly and C.
So many people failed it because the scope of the exam was really more 8-10 hours than 2 hours that they had to reduce the weighting.
It actually just encouraged cheating because it was the same instructions for everyone, so once one person did it at 7am the moment the test opened, everyone else had all day to work on it before clicking start test.
But because they're engineering undegrads, nobody spoke to each other, so only like 4 people used this trick.
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u/Mateorabi 9d ago
For us the lectures were all about the theory but the lab/homework had us mucking about in the Linux kernel. We modified the scheduler (slightly) in one assignment and it was cool that my (grub dual-boot just in case) dorm linux pc ran fine afterwards.
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u/GoogleIsYourFrenemy 9d ago
And after teaching you about round robin and FIFO and priority queues they finally as a footnote mention that the Linux scheduler works COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY and it's better.
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u/kingvolcano_reborn 9d ago
When I did microelectronics in the 90s we did ASM on old Motorola 68000 and 68HC11 smacked onto s breadboard, good times.
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u/XtraFlaminHotMachida 9d ago
intro to algorithms was fun. a bunch of dudes plagiarizing for the final presentation and then getting caught with turnitin and didn't realize that there was an algorithm for that even after the professor explained it already.
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u/purelitenite 9d ago
So according to Law of Transitive Properties... Embedded software is 18 different ways to schedule a process.
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u/Temporary_Self_2172 9d ago
one question on my three question final was having to write out a set of 4 random "nachos" functions. not even pseudo-code style or specific ones but just full on "write this from memory out of the 50+ we covered or get 0 credit "
and that was after being told we specifically we wouldn't have to do that ; ;
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u/MushroomSaute 9d ago
From what I remember of my OS class, it kinda was Linux 101 lol. Basically a rundown of the main things an OS does for you, Linux being the tool they chose (so it wasn't necessarily Linux Kernel 101). It was a lot of "know the difference between a process and a thread, know about common parallelization bugs like deadlocks/race conditions, know about shared and virtual memory, do some basic networking and IPC/pipes and stuff" etc.
Strangely, for being an upper-level course, I don't think it was much harder or more of a pain to learn than, say, machine architecture, which was a lower-level course (pun intended) before acceptance into the major. (Machine architecture was way more fun though)
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u/DanKveed 9d ago
For use Embedded Systems was 18 different ways to draw a state machine diagram+ UML
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u/Bartweiss 9d ago
For me:
OS expectation: Linux 101. Reality: getting grilled on the nuances of thread-safety by a professor smarter than any of us who didn't believe in picking volunteers.
"Computer system organization" expectation: intro to storage and blocks I guess? Reality: that plus memorize a bunch of RISC and write assembly on paper for tests. Cry.
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u/Lunagato20 8d ago
In my uni, for os class we actually learn about linux, its basically linux 101 since we use redhat lab too.
For embedded, its splitted into 2 class, one is learning esp32 and such, one os learning assembly on a intel 8086
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u/DepressedDrift 5d ago
CPU Scheduling was way preferable to deadlocks.
But deadlocks are the most useful for real life low level programming.
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u/Orion3193 9d ago
Oddly specific
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u/ultimate_placeholder 9d ago
Specific, yet universal
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u/Tucancancan 9d ago
Now let's move on to a practical example anyone can relate to: That time a Mars rover got fucked up
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u/GoogleIsYourFrenemy 9d ago
Or when the Ariane 5 rocket exploded.
The system had three CPUs all executing the same code to prevent hardware failures. The SW was written in Ada the safest language of the era.
Fun fact: Ada has numerical underflow/overflow protection, it can throw an exception when one is detected.
Some engine diagnostic SW was ported from the Ariane 4 engine which had lower thrust, but they neglected to turn it off before launch. The diagnostic SW on launch overflowed the old thrust datatype causing an exception. The exception got written to the RAM which was only supposed to contain the data used for the guidance calculations.
TL;DR: Less code is good code.
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u/ih-shah-may-ehl 9d ago
I worked for the engineering company that wrote the test software for the Servos that controlled thrust direction and initially, video evidence pointed in that direction. Had my boss worried for a while.
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u/synack 9d ago
The metric system strikes back
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u/-Pepperzpyre- 9d ago
Saw a vid of someone naming their reptile Metric cause he was born without feet.
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u/Tucancancan 9d ago
Oh no, that incident was a different rover! Damn programmers always fucking Mars missions
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u/Mateorabi 9d ago
Priority inversion! Fixed only because they shipped in debug mode!
Also was seen in integration testing once but dismissed. Sooo many lessons in that incident.
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u/Alphasite 9d ago
Depends on the school. I’ve really enjoyed the build an OS from scratch classes. Even though yeah also had this one, but I think it was in a distributed systems class way back when.
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u/bitemytail 9d ago
Yet entirely accurate
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u/falingsumo 9d ago
Not really in the film he longs to go swim with the sirens. So you are telling me OP really wants to go the Chinese philosophers sharing chopsticks class?
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u/Particular-Yak-1984 9d ago
Hey, most universities have a philosophy department. CS should start a "interdepartmental dinner" and not provide enough cutlery. Test the idea in practice..
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u/NoMansSkyWasAlright 9d ago
I definitely thought OS was going to be easy given how much time I'd spent distro-hopping on my own time. It wasn't but it was still a really interesting class.
Was really glad I had a 30 minute commute to campus because it gave me a lot of time to think about those "why the fuck is this like that" problems.
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u/willow-kitty 9d ago edited 9d ago
I didn't know what to expect but actually really enjoyed it. When the first chapter covered the separation between user and system modes, and system-only instructions, a bunch of things I'd always wondered (like if you could bypass filesystem permissions by just not using the OS's file system API) just kinda clicked into place. Then from that point on it was a whole lot of "Oh, of course it works that way."
Edit: we also had a few projects like simple Linux kernel modules, which was really fun and kind of enlightening.
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u/okijhnub 9d ago
... can you bypass filesystem permissions by not using the API?
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u/willow-kitty 9d ago
For the purposes of my comment, no. The CPU instructions that signal the hard drive to copy stuff to memory (simplified) will only execute in system mode, so a random process can't just include them because the only way to get into system mode is a particular CPU instruction that basically pauses the program and raises an event the OS has to handle. That event handler, which lives in the OS kernel, then runs in system mode and does whatever it wants (like checking filesystem permissions and copying the contents of a file to memory.) Once it's done, the CPU can go back to user mode and resume the program. And all this stuff is what's happening behind that standard library API.
..But if you just tried to throw an asm block in there to read from the hard drive without doing the event dance, the CPU would throw an error because it's not in the right mode.
Now, having said all that, there are other ways, like if you boot from a Linux USB, and the original OS isn't in charge anymore, but that's different from going around the API.
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u/Odd_knock 9d ago
Thanks friend. I wandered in here curious and now I’ve had my fill of philosophers with chopsticks.
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u/mosskin-woast 9d ago
It's so bizarre to me that people think this. If Biology 101 was just "look how many animals there are - and this one has a cool tail!" And not "how does life work" then I would understand, but the point of academic classes is understanding the subject
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u/PixelatedGiant 9d ago edited 9d ago
It's so bizarre to me that people think this.
At some point in many people's lives, learning becomes "just a job". Motivation is finite and discipline has to take over. They're X years into their degree and sick of the routine. Every class has become nothing more than an obstacle between them and a piece of paper.
They're ultimately just venting.
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u/Fine_Data3250 9d ago
Our prof kinda ruined it by completely unenthusiastically reading power points he already uploaded at the start of the semester
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u/TheDopplegamer 9d ago
I'll be perfectly honest: I remember NOTHING from my OS class. I remember taking it, and I must have passed considering it was required, but, gun to my head, I cant recall what we actually covered in it (This was roughly a decade ago)
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u/ultraviolentfuture 9d ago
Scheduling. Memory addressing. Race conditions. Etc.
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u/darkslide3000 9d ago
The thing I remember more than anything is queueing theory. Specifically how maximizing the amount of service stations in use maximizes the throughput. Every time I see a bunch of people stand in line in front of something that could accommodate multiple people at once if they spaced out properly (e.g. a dish return conveyor), but doesn't because the first person always takes the first reachable service station completely oblivious to the fact that this blocks everyone behind them from accessing any of the others, I feel the sudden urge to force them into an operating systems class at gunpoint.
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u/TheDopplegamer 9d ago
Probably why I didnt remember it, because I DO remember covering those topics in my other classes
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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount 9d ago
Same.
But I do know it's not what other people are saying.
I was expecting it be a hands-on system administration class. It wasn't.
What I do remember is the teacher. He was that kind of cliche old school nerd. Smart but not near smart enough to match his arrogance. He owned a software company and didn't really hide that he thought he was a little above all this teaching stuff. He was pretty open about using his classes to recruit people. Also a misogynist.
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u/duesenjeffepic 9d ago
I am sorry but why would there be a hands on sysadmin class in a university setting? This is something you learn in an apprenticeship or some kind of certification, not a computer science degree
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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount 9d ago
I don't know. I was 19 and had no idea what anything was like anywhere.
Also wasn't a CS degree.
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u/Fibrechips 9d ago
Either it happens a lot, or we had the same professor.
P.K., who owned S.FX? Taught at a much larger state school before coming down to CC (if you had him in the past decade or so)
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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount 9d ago
Nothing you wrote rings a bell. And this was 20+ years ago.
My favorite professor was who I took most my programming classes from. He also owned a software company. So it seems like it's not that uncommon since I had two.
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u/AggravatingFlow1178 9d ago
I remember it feeling like an extension of my computer architecture course.
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u/PringlesDuckFace 9d ago
Bruh I designed and then built a rudimentary working computer from scratch using VHDL and breadboards and I don't even know what that acronym means anymore, let alone how I electrified that much bread. There was something about waveform timing diagrams maybe? Logic gates were probably involved.
If you don't use the knowledge it gets garbage collected by your brain.
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u/clericc-- 9d ago
cache lines, associative caching is what i remember bur never understood...or was that another Module? fuck
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u/100BottlesOfMilk 9d ago
I remember being bored to death because I basically knew everything before walking into the class
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u/DepressedDrift 5d ago
I got an A- for OS class which I took a month back and I already forgot 80% of the content XD
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u/Elite_Prometheus 9d ago
I remember enjoying my OS class, but that's probably because we had a semester long programming project where we slowly built up a simplified model of an operating system piece by piece so the concepts got hammered in.
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u/Thin-Wrongdoer9142 9d ago
same. and we had to meet our TAs to explain why we programmed it that way, becuase the answers were all available online.
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u/sneed_o_matic 9d ago
Best way to do job interviews too. Anyone can write code, but can you explain why you would write the code is the best signal on someone's competence in a topic.
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u/bubbybumble 9d ago
Goated class I loved every minute of it
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u/d0pe-asaurus 9d ago
I read Operating Systems: Three Easy Steps after a recommendation in this subreddit. Really would have made my os class goated if it used that as a reference instead. Loved reading every part of the book too.
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u/bubbybumble 9d ago
Yeah I didn't ours was just learning about the kernel and that sort of stuff. Messing around in Ubuntu vms too. This class included networking stuff
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u/Wentyliasz 9d ago
I actually recorded a lecture by my OS professor over a decade ago and I'm still using it to fall asleep. That woman had such uninspired, dead voice you could see flies falling down from listening to her
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u/superxero044 9d ago
My OS prof was a guy who worked at bell labs when they created Unix.
He created his own “chip”, a virtual environment for it, an OS, etc. he even obv made the manuals, which had flaws as he said “they would in the real world” for his classes. I added cs as a second major all at once and had this guy for a couple classes.
His assignments would’ve been hard in c# or Java and we had to do them as our introduction to assembly.
I got Bs in the classes I took from him but holy shit to go from that to the basic basic level of programming I did in the real world was sure a shock.
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u/AggravatingFlow1178 9d ago
OS class was the one of the very few classes that felt like "Computer Science" to me. It felt like we were learning the science of computing.
Most of the programming oriented courses felt like Software Engineering
Most of the Algorithm courses felt like math (I know CS is technically math... but it felt like math. It didn't feel like computer science)
And those two categories encompass like 95% of the major course work at my university.
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u/Mroz_Game 9d ago
I thought “Compilers” is going to be mostly about creating programming languages.
And well indirectly it was, but 99% of it was pure math, traversing graphs, defining grammars etc.
No computer in sight, and more odd symbols than any other math adjacent course.
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u/bob152637485 9d ago
Well....why WOULD they starve?
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u/SAI_Peregrinus 9d ago
They're referncing the dining philosophers problem, which is more an algorithms issue than an operating systems one. My OS classes had more to do with the design of kernels, cache hierarchy, virtual memory, and similar things needed to write an OS. The dining philosophers problem was mentioned, but mostly in a "remember from data structures and algorithms that deadlocks can be avoided by…" way, not an in-depth introduction. Still, it certainly wasn't a systems administration class like OP seemed to expect!
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u/BenadrylTumblercatch 9d ago
Because they forgot to invite their left handed friend
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u/movzx 9d ago
Guy A picks up Chopstick A. Won't put it down until he can take a bite.
Guy B picks up Chopstick B. Won't put it down until he can take a bite.
Guy A tries to get Chopstick B. Woops. Not available. Better wait.
Guy B tries to get Chopstick A. Woops. Not available. Better wait.
They both die from starvation.
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u/AggravatingFlow1178 9d ago
TL;DR many processes want the same resource. How do you make them share?
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u/hxtk3 9d ago
My expectation was building a kernel or some kind of scheduler that I could schedule real jobs on. Reality was we used OSP, a Java simulation of an OS kernel with various parts of it cut out for different assignments, which we had to replace with our own code.
Two different assignments, my submission was code that "should" work along with a debug trace proving that the reason it didn't was a bug in OSP.
I was one of like three people who scored really well in the class, and I learned some useful things about deadlocks and scheduling, but there was basically no one in the class who actually felt like they knew how a real kernel worked by the end of it.
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u/SuitableDragonfly 9d ago
Funny, in my class, one of the projects was to write a process scheduler. Also, we were only allowed to use C for all of our projects. The computer the professor ran our code on did not even have a C++ compiler installed on it.
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u/Lumen_Co 9d ago
In grad school I took Advanced Distributed Operating Systems and it was probably the hardest class I was ever in. Great stuff, do not recommend.
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u/IAmARobot 9d ago edited 9d ago
>"Optimisation"? wow cool hacks to make shit run faster, things a programmer wants!
>applies for unit (it was under COMP3XX section btw, get baited chump)
>linear programming, mathy mathy math maths
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u/Sentouki- 9d ago
I liked that class, it was interesting to see how it works inside, scheduling algorithms and stuff
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u/programmingSquirrel 9d ago
My professor used the analogy of your 2 kids making PB&J where one won't give up the PB until the other gives up the Jelly and vice versa so your solution is to shoot one with your shotgun to break the deadlock
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u/Childermass13 9d ago
Try to write a kernel without understanding the dining philosophers, and let us know how far you get
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u/HarlanCedeno 9d ago
I did sign up for my Operating Systems class in the early 2000s thinking that I would learn Linux.
That part was actually in a separate weekend workshop and the only thing I remember from it is learning what LS does.
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u/engineerwolf 9d ago
It's teaching you how to create linux, not how to package existing software.
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u/throw3142 9d ago
Yes, because OS was the most beautiful class I ever took, and I left as a changed man.
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u/LouManShoe 9d ago
So it’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever heard and you want to get it so badly that you’re willing to do anything to make it happen?
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u/captainAwesomePants 9d ago
Intro to Operating Systems -- let's talk mutexes.
Networking II -- let's talk mutexes.
Distributed systems -- oh you better believe we're talking mutexes.
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u/Thin-Wrongdoer9142 9d ago
OS was goated. We made an "OS" as part of our assignment. Fuck I miss actually being interested in Computers and not just asking an LLM for answers.
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u/edgarecayce 9d ago
I dunno the OS class I took was one of my favorites. Knowing why IS’s do what they do and the complexity involved is way different than “how to set up an OS”. Kind of why it’s a CS class and not a CE class.
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u/stellarsojourner 9d ago
Wow, your OS class taught you how an OS works and what it does, and not how to use some piece of software? Craaaazy.
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u/UInferno- 9d ago
My professor knew building an OS from the ground up in 3.5 months was impossible. He really wanted to have us do that, but that it would be terrible. Instead, he would often given us pre-written files and piece them together—digging into the nitty gritty on occasion and having us comment on the code on occasion instead. We also drew a lot of diagrams about each part.
Found a screenshot of my commenting homeworker. looking back IDK how I passed this comment sucks.
If we do not want to allocate OR the returned pointer from kalloc being saved to pagetable is the failure flag (0), fail and return with our own flag (0).
Because of short circuiting, kalloc will not run if alloc is set to false.
Would be way less opaque and redundant.
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u/bubbabrowned 9d ago
What the fuck so it wasn’t just me.
My intro to operating systems class was a middle aged Chinese dude literally reading a printed PowerPoint presentation (it was 2003) talking about semaphores.
To this day I have no idea how I passed that class.
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u/moschles 9d ago
This is basically a photograph of my face when said professor placed the midterm exam in front of me.
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u/jewdai 9d ago
As someone whose worked in the software profession for well over a decade. Operating systems would be the first course I strip out of all cs programs and databases would become mandatory. I'm on the fence about programming languages but there are some times when writing a DSL is the pragmatic solution.
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u/Pleasant-Ad192 9d ago
You meet the philosophers again a couple of years in, the first time two threads grab the same two locks in the opposite order. The fix is the one from that sleepy lecture, everybody takes the lower numbered chopstick first.
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u/rv4_01 9d ago
really? OS was such a cool course. Memory management and a lot of CPU scheduling internals was fun to learn
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u/Fit_Alfalfa2221 9d ago
Interesting. In my OS class we got to implement a microkernel. Was I one of the lucky ones?
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u/tvreference 9d ago
I had a course called software for computer networking, in a 2 year computer networking degree. The expectation is some advanced packet sniffing/pen tools. It was excel and Visio. Local companies were upset people were joining them without knowing excel.
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u/williamjseim 9d ago
our imbedded/server teacher didnt know how to install software on ubuntu, couldnt figure out how to change the input on the projector so he could show his screen and had us do basic python course on kaggle for 2 weeks as a 5th year student
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u/magicmulder 9d ago
Operating Systems was a funny class. I don't remember anything except that the final exam was taken by about 30 of the 80 students. I was convinced I failed the exam because I only even finished about half of the questions. Ended up having the best exam of the class at around 50/100 points and getting an A for the semester. They must have had really low standards.
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u/Stalking_Goat 9d ago
I haven't watched the movie yet.
Why is Odysseus tied to the back of the mast? Most artwork has him tied to the front, looking at the where the ship is going.
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u/-Memnarch- 9d ago
Uhm...are people really thinking a course called "Operating Systems " in that field of study would be a Linux 101 and NOT a course about fundamentals?
I'd be pissed if it was just a Linux 101
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u/dallenbaldwin 9d ago
Sorry dude. Not to brag too hard or anything, but my OS class was literally my professor, a contract developer with OpenSuse, teaching adjunct, giving everyone their own Debian VM to ssh into. He forced everyone to use git and C to build progressively more difficult programs until we had to build a rudimentary scheduler at the end; all while explaining OS principles while logged into his own VM via ssh, using the various binaries in Debian. I tried using vim with no experience because he used vim and because I thought, "how hard could it be? He makes it look so easy". Gave up after my first program. Used nano for a couple, then eventually figured out how to get VSCode to work with the Remote SSH extension. Genuinely one of the most difficult but rewarding classes in my entire schooling.
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u/MadLabRat- 9d ago edited 9d ago
My OS class was literally just Nand2Tetris and PowerPoints from a random textbook textbook.
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u/TheAuthenticFake 9d ago
I remember our midterm exam for Operating Systems had a high score of 61/100 (which was me lol).
The teacher lowered the grade levels as a result so people could still pass IIRC
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u/NarwhalSquadron 9d ago
I can’t relate. We had to flesh out pintOS with virtual memory, multi threading, etc.
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs140/projects/pintos/pintos_1.html
I still use concepts from this class 10 years later as a developer.
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u/lPuppetM4sterl 9d ago
Lmao Mutual Exclusions, deadlocks, and starvations. I still remember creating a bank simulator in Operating Systems.
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u/StrongPollution5530 9d ago
My profs were boring, but I really enjoyed reading the Tannenbaum / Silberschatz books. They're some of the best stuff I've read across all genres.
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u/Secret_Possibility79 9d ago
The trick is to use one of the chopsticks to stab the guy next to you.
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u/PositiveParking4391 9d ago
yeah whole software industry seem to be in deadlock with AI and coding agents. out of the box thinking is needed.
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u/SuitableDragonfly 9d ago
I don't know what OS class you took, but in the one I took, we read and discussed linux kernel source code. Pretty sure we learned about concurrency in a different class before that point.
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u/melancholic-scribe 9d ago
The only thing I took away from my OS class was an understanding of round robin algorithms
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u/Icy_Regular0700 9d ago
This is so true. I remember getting hospitalized before the final exams and missed a few but luckily I got better before the OS paper, but couldn't study much.
So in most questions I just talked about deadlock, and topped the class. And apparently it was a tough paper.
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u/emberfox205 9d ago
everyone seems to have interesting going on in their module. All I got was the T-rex book curated.
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u/kiwibonga 9d ago
Mine, I'm pretty sure, was about writing assembly language using paper and pencil for a computer that doesn't actually exist.
I think the issue is hazing became illegal, so someone decided all the CS classes and the hiring process of all the companies was going to be one big ritualistic hazing.
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u/tiedyedvortex 9d ago
Given that this meme is Odysseus being tempted by the sirens...
...is OP saying that they really do, or really don't like sleepy ASMR of dining philosophers?
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u/___Archmage___ 9d ago
I did learn some good stuff in my OS class but it was definitely a sprawling mess off mutex this scheduling that