Very difficult course but it covers some interesting topics. The teaching team is very cognoscente that this is a difficult course and give lots of warning regarding tough upcoming labs and units while also providing days off from lecture each week prior to quizzes. The units regarding file systems and virtual memory are the toughest.

Some x86 similar instructions and stack frames (similar to 213). Pipelining regarding running concurrent instructions. Caching and how caches are built/work. File systems and the thinking behind their constructions. Virtual memory, what it is and how it works.

Good teaching team. Clear they care about their students!

Try to understand the concepts first time around because trying to study for quizzes off half understood knowledge is rough... good luck with this required course :)

Useful and relatively interesting but difficult