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I’m surprised you had that many. My CS program had nothing comparable that I can remember.

Definitely not computer science.

We had one called "Systems Programming" that was a whirlwind intro to everything Unix (6 weeks on bash, 6 weeks on C, 6 weeks on Perl, a mishmash of SSH and everything-is-a-file and Unix-philosophy, etc)

We had another called "Operating Systems" that focused on things like concurrency, building a really basic memory pager, etc (mix of C and Java I think)

And we had one other called "Networking" that was sort of along the same lines as "Operating Systems" but focused on, well, networking. Mostly Java; we wrote our own application-layer protocols, that sort of thing

But yeah pretty much everything else - including the more "concrete" programming courses like Data Structures and Algorithms - was fairly abstracted away from any specific system

Nice, and now that I think of it we did have an operating systems class. I know better than to trust 25-year-old memories.

My undergrad CS degree I don't think contained any sort of OS course, other than maybe a survey of them but there was a graduate level class that was required for any higher degree. I took it before I graduated with an undergrad because it was interesting, and it was quite extensive as I recall. That was well over 20 years ago, however.

That sounds a lot like part of the UofT CS program.

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