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
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Introduction to Operating Systems Lectures
This note explains the following topics: OS Internals, C Programming and Makefiles, Bit-wise Operators, File Systems, Processes, File Descriptors, Threads, File Systems Internals, Synchronization, Deadlock.
Author(s): Andrew H. Fagg
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Introduction to Operating Systems by Dr. Mark Humphrys
This note describes the following topics: UNIX or Linux, Pipes and redirection, Text editors, Case sensitivity, Filenames and Special Characters, UNIX file protections, UNIX directory protections, Shell, Shell utilities, Search engine, PC operating systems, Server operating systems, Mobile operating systems, OS structure, Processes, Memory, Files, Windows command line.
Author(s): Dr. Mark Humphrys
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Operating Systems and Middleware Supporting Controlled Interaction
In this book, you will learn about all three kinds of interaction. This book describes how all these kinds of support are provided both by operating systems and by additional software layered on top of operating systems, which is known as middleware. Topics covered includes: Threads, Scheduling, Synchronization and Deadlocks, Atomic Transactions, Virtual Memory, Processes and Protection, Files and Other Persistent Storage, Networking, Messaging, RPC, and Web Services, Security.
Author(s): Max Hailperin
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This lecture note describes the following topics: Historical background; interrupts, VMware, building kernels, VNC, Threads; signals, Linux processes and threads, Interrupts and system calls, Interprocess Communication, Deadlocks, Virtual Memory, Linux paging, File systems, Device drivers.
Author(s): Steven M. Bellovin
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Operating Systems Three Easy Pieces
This book is centered around three conceptual pieces that are fundamental to operating systems: virtualization, concurrency, and persistence.
Author(s): Remzi H. Arpaci Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
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Operating Systems Course Notes
This book covers the following topics: Process Management, Memory Management, Storage Management, Protection and Security.
Author(s): Dr. John T. Bell
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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
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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
Programming the Be Operating System (Dan Sydow)
This book covers the following topics: BeOS Programming Overview, BeIDE Projects, BeOS API Overview, Windows, Views, and Messages, Controls and Messages, Menus, Messages and Threads, Files.
Author(s): Dan Parks Sydow
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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
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