A Short Introduction to Operating Systems (M. Burgess)

Operating Systems Notes by Jinzhong Niu

This note explains the following topics: Computer system, Hardware basics, Nachos overview, Process concept and state, Process description and control, Threads, Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization, Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization, Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization, Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation, Memory Management, Virtual Memory, Virual Memory, Uniprocessor Scheduling, I/O Management.

Author(s): Jinzhong Niu

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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

Distributed Operating Systems

This note explains the following topics: Processes, Fault tolerance, Communication, Synchronization - general purpose algorithms, synchronization in databases, Consistency and replication, Naming, Security, Cluster systems, Grid systems and Cloud computing.

Author(s): Adam Kozakiewicz

NA Pages

Operating Systems by Ding Yuan

This lecture note discusses the principles in the design and implementation of operating systems software. Topics covered includes: Introduction to operating systems concepts, process management, memory management, file systems for both hard drive and SSD, virtualization, and distributed operating systems. The laboratory exercises will require implementing a simple, but functional operating system from ground up.

Author(s): Ding Yuan , University Of Toronto

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Operating System by NPTEL

This lecture note covers the following topics: Introduction to Operating System, File Systems and Management, Process and Process Management, Memory Management, Input Output (IO) Management, Resource Sharing and Management, Interprocess communication, Real time Operating Systems and Microkernels, OS and Security, Unix Primer, Unix Kernel Architecture, Shell Scripts in UNIX, Source Code Control System in UNIX, X Windows in UNIX, System Administration in UNIX.

Author(s): NPTEL

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

Operating System (by Dang Van Duc, et al)

This book contains the following topics: Introduction into Operating system, Operating System on PC, Operating System Essential, C Programming language, Disk Operating System (DOS), Keyboard and Mouse Input, Video Display, Printer and Serial Port, File Management, Windows 98 Architecture, Windows NT 4.0.

Author(s): NA

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

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

This is an Internet Book describing the CIFS protocol suite. Topics covered includes: NetBIOS over TCP/IP, SMB: The Server Message Block Protocol and Browse Service.

Author(s): Christopher R. Herte

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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