MATH 474(c) Business Systems Analysis
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Last listed
- 1974–75
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1973–74 to 1974–75; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Topics in operating systems will include: basic concepts of computer hardware; program translation; program loading and linking; cooperating sequential processes - computational and data structures, critical section problem process synchronization primitives (semaphores, etc.), parallel programming; Introduction to multiprogramming; Operating system nucleus — process control and communication, system resource managements, input/output control system, traps and trap handling routines; File system; Reliability; Protection; System performance, measurement and evaluation. Normal course requirements include a project. 3 hours lectures, one term. Prerequisite: M340 (a) and M340 (b). . . Survey of organization and management theory, including the following topics: Organizations, management, information systems in organization; Systems theory and the systems approach including the following topics: Definition of system, role of the systems analyst within an organization, the problems of communications within an organizational framework, the analysis phase of systems development, the role of management within the systems approach; systems design: the nature of design, the design, phase of systems development, design aids e.g. software packages and “packaged” documentation systems, the data base concept; implementation of computer based information systems, including the following topics: file structures, input and output design, forms design, implementation planning and control, some developments in information retrieval systems. 3 hours lectures, one term. Prerequisite: M340 (a) and M340 (b) .
As printed in the 1973–74 to 1974–75 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1973–74 to 1974–75, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1973–74 to 1974–75 2 calendars
Topics in operating systems will include: basic concepts of computer hardware; program translation; program loading and linking; cooperating sequential processes - computational and data structures, critical section problem process synchronization primitives (semaphores, etc.), parallel programming; Introduction to multiprogramming; Operating system nucleus — process control and communication, system resource managements, input/output control system, traps and trap handling routines; File system; Reliability; Protection; System performance, measurement and evaluation. Normal course requirements include a project. 3 hours lectures, one term. Prerequisite: M340 (a) and M340 (b). . . Survey of organization and management theory, including the following topics: Organizations, management, information systems in organization; Systems theory and the systems approach including the following topics: Definition of system, role of the systems analyst within an organization, the problems of communications within an organizational framework, the analysis phase of systems development, the role of management within the systems approach; systems design: the nature of design, the design, phase of systems development, design aids e.g. software packages and “packaged” documentation systems, the data base concept; implementation of computer based information systems, including the following topics: file structures, input and output design, forms design, implementation planning and control, some developments in information retrieval systems. 3 hours lectures, one term. Prerequisite: M340 (a) and M340 (b)
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