*** Operating Systems ***

· Motivation for Operating Systems

· Introduction

• What's an Operating System
• Computer/Operating System Overview
• Evolution of Operating Systems
• Functional/Protection Aspects
• Operating System Structures
  

· Concurrent Processes

• Process Models and Management
• Process Description and Control
• Task/Thread Description and Control
• Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization
• Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation
  

· Memory Management

• Real Memory Management
• Motivation for Virtual Memory (VM)
• Paging and Segmentation
• Page Fetch, Placement and Replacement
  

· Uniprocessor Scheduling

• Levels of CPU Scheduling
• Process Scheduling
  

· External Storage Management

• File Systems/Management
• Directories
• File Allocation
• Disk Scheduling
  

· Bibliography

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