Operating Systems

 

What is an operating system?

Computer System and OS Overview History

Process Description and Control

Memory management

Processes, threads, scheduling

Inter-process communication & synchronization

I/O and file systems

Simple Batch Systems

Multiprogramming Batched Systems

Time-Sharing Systems

Personal-Computer Systems

Parallel Systems

Distributed Systems

Real -Time Systems

 

 

Books:

1. Operating Systems Concepts, Silberschatz & Galvin, Addison-Wesley ISBN 0-201-54262-5
2. Modern Operating Systems, Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-595752-4
3. Operating Systems; Internals etc., Stallings, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-887407-7
4. Operating Systems; Design etc, Tanenbaum & Woodhull,       Prentice Hall, ISBN  0-13-630195-9
5. Operating Systems; A Modern Perspective, Nutt, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-8053-1295-1