A Short Introduction to Operating Systems (M. Burgess)

Notes on Operating Systems

This note deals with what operating systems are, and the context in which they operate. In particular, it emphasizes the issues of software layers and abstraction, and the interaction between the operating system and the hardware. Topics covered includes: Operating System Functionality, Background on Computer Architecture, Processes and Threads, UNIX Processes, Concurrency, Resource Contention and Deadlock, Lock-Free Programming, Memory Management, File Systems, Mechanics of Disk Access, Crosscutting Issues, SMPs and Multicore, Operating System Structure, Performance Evaluation, Communication and Distributed Systems.

Author(s): Dror G. Feitelson

312 Pages

Operating Systems by Steven Hand

This note aims to explain the structure and functions of an operating system, and illustrate the key operating system aspects. Topics covered includes: Introduction to Operating Systems, Processes and Scheduling, Memory Management, I/O and Device Management, Protection, Filing Systems, Case Study: Unix and Windows NT.

Author(s): Steven Hand

168 Pages

Operating Systems Lecture Notes by Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women

This lecture note covers the following topics: Computer System And Operating System , Process Management, Concurrency, Memory Management, Virtual Memory, Principles Of Deadlock, File System Interface, Mass-storage Structure.

Author(s): Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women

119 Pages

Operating Systems Lecture notes Worcester Polytechnic Institute

This note covers the following topics: Introduction to concurrency, Processes and Threads, Interprocess communication and synchronization, Virtual Memory and Paging, Page Replacement algorithms, Caches and principles of caching, Design and Implementation issues, I/O hardware, I/O software and drivers, User interface support.

Author(s): Worcester Polytechnic Institute

NA Pages

Principles of Operating Systems

This note explains the principles and concepts of operating systems, including processes, threads, scheduling, synchronization, memory management, file systems, and I/O systems are covered.

Author(s): Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine

NA Pages

Operating Systems Lecture Notes

This book covers the following topics: OS History, computer System Structures, Operating System Structures, Processes, Interprocess Communication, Threads, Nachos, Mutual Exclusion, Semaphores, Implementing Semaphores, Locks and CVs, Readers/Writers Problem, Non-preemptive Scheduling, Preemptive Scheduling, Complex CPU Scheduling, Deadlock, Deadlock Detection, Deadlock Avoidance, Static Memory Allocation, Dynamic Alloc., Relocation, Dynamic Reloc., Segmentation, Paging, Demand Paging, Page Replacement, File System Operations, File System Data Structures, File System Implementation, File System Improvement, Disk Management, Distributed Operating Systems and Networking.

Author(s): Paul A. Farrell

NA Pages

Practical File System Design with the Be File Sysytem (Dominic Giampaolo)

This book contains the following topics: Introduction to the BeOS and BFS, File systems, Data Structures of BFS, Attributes, Indexing, and Queries, Allocation Policies, Disk Block Cache, File System Performance, The Vnode Layer and User-Level API.

Author(s): Dominic Giampaolo

247 Pages

A Short Introduction to Operating Systems (M. Burgess)

This book covers the following topics: What is an operating system, Single-task OS, Multi-tasking and multi-user OS, Processes and Thread, Memory and storage, Networks: Services and protocols, TCP/IP Networks and Security: design considerations.

Author(s): M. Burgess

NA Pages

Operating Systems Lecture Notes (Martin C. Rinard)

This book covers the following topics: Processes and Threads, Thread Creation, Manipulation and Synchronization, Deadlocks, Implementing Synchronization Operations, CPU Scheduling, OS Potpourri, Introduction to Memory Management, Introduction to Paging, Issues in Paging and Virtual Memory, MIPS TLB Structure, Introduction to File Systems, File System Implementation, Monitors, Segments, Disk Scheduling, Networking, UDP and TCP.

Author(s): Martin C. Rinard

NA Pages

Implementing CIFS The Common Internet File System (Christopher R. Herte) PDF

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