Introduction to Operating systems Lecture online notes
This online PDF lecture notes contains following topics: Definition and Function of operating systems, Evolution of operating system, Operating system structure-monolithic layered,virtual machine and Client server, Different types of operating system-real time systems, multi-user System, distributed system, Introduction to basic terms and batch processing system: Jobs, Processes files, command interpreter, Logical and Physical address protection, paging, and segmentation, Virtual memory, Page replacement algorithms, Catch memory, hierarchy of memory types, Associative memory, Process states, virtual processor, Interrupt mechanism, Scheduling algorithms Performance evaluation of scheduling algorithm, Threads,File systems-Partitions and Directory structure, Disk space allocation, Disk scheduling, I/O Hardware, I/O Drivers, DMA controlled I/O and programmed I/O, I/O Supervisors, Introduction and need for distributed OS, Architecture of Distributed OS, Models of distributed system, Remote procedure Calls, Distributed shared memory, Unix Operating System- Case Studies
Author(s): Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University Ahmedabad
194 Pages 
This note covers the following topics: History of operating system, Different kinds of operating system, Operation system concepts, System Calls, Operating system structure, Processes, threads, thread model and usage, inter process communication, Scheduling, Memory Management, Memory Abstraction, Virtual Memory, page replacement algorithms, Resources, introduction to deadlocks, deadlock detection and recovery, deadlocks avoidance, deadlock prevention, Multiple processor system, multiprocessors, multi computers, principles of Input Output hardware, principles of Input Output software, Files, directories, files systems implementation, File System Management and Optimization.
Author(s): Andrew
109 Pages
Operating Systems Three Easy Pieces
This PDF covers the following topics related to Operating Systems : Introduction to Operating Systems, Virtualization, Dialogue on Virtualization, The Abstraction: The Process, Scheduling, A Dialogue on Memory Virtualization, The Abstraction: Address Spaces, Interlude: Memory API, Segmentation, Free-Space Management, Paging, The VAX/VMS Virtual Memory System, Concurrency: An Introduction, Interlude: Thread API, Locks, Lock-based Concurrent Data Structures, Condition Variables, Semaphores, Event-based Concurrency , I/O Devices, Hard Disk Drives, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAIDs), Interlude: File and Directories, File System Implementation, Locality and The Fast File System, Crash Consistency: FSCK and Journaling, Log-structured File Systems, Data Integrity and Protection, Distributed Systems, Sun&
Author(s): Remzi H. Arpaci-dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-dusseau, University of Wisconsin madison
643 Pages
Lecture Notes on Operating Systems by Marvin Solomon
This page covers the following topics related to Operating Systems : Notes on Java, Processes and Synchronization, Memory Management, Disks, File Systems, Protection and Security.
Author(s): Marvin Solomon
NA Pages
Operating Systems An introduction to Unix, and Operating Systems Theory
This note covers the following topics: The UNIX file system, Networking and the Internet on UNIX machine, Operating Systems Theory, Process Synchronization, InterProcess Communication under UNIX, Deadlock, Virtual Memory and Paging, Computer Security.
Author(s): Hugh Murrell
85 Pages
