Operating Systems Explained

Ruth Mekonnen · 452 pages

Processes, threads, scheduling, memory and file systems, explained with diagrams and small C examples.

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Key concepts

Processes & Scheduling

How an operating system shares the CPU among running programs.

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Memory Management

Allocating, protecting and reclaiming memory for running programs.

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Abstraction

Modelling what something does while hiding how it does it.

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