Operating Systems Lecture Notes

1. Introduction
2. History of Operating Systems
3. Operating Systems Structure
   • System Component
   • Operating System Services
   • System Calls and System Programs
   • Layered Approach System Design
   • Mechanism and Policy
4. Process
   • Definition of Process  
   • Process State
   • Process Operations
   • Process Control Block
5. Threads
6. Solaris-2 Operating Systems
7. CPU/Process Scheduling
8. Schedule Algorithm
   • FCFS Scheduling
   • Round Robin Scheduling
   • SJF Scheduling
   • SRT Scheduling
   • Priority Scheduling
   • Multilevel Queue Scheduling
   • Multilevel Feedback Queue Scheduling
9. Interprocess Communication
   • Critical Section
   • Mutual Exclusion
   • Achieving Mutual Exclusion
   • Semaphores
10. Deadlock
    • Necessary and Sufficient Deadlock Conditions
    • Dealing with Deadlock Problem
      • Deadlock Prevention
      • Deadlock Avoidance
      • Deadlock Detection
11. Absolutely Important UNIX Commands
12. References

 Operating Systems Review -- by Shikha Ghosh Gottfried.
 IEEE Distributed Systems Online Problem Reporting and Tracking System at CS Computer Systems

 

 Links

• Cryptology ePrint Archive -- provides rapid access to recent research in cryptology. Papers have been placed here by the authors and did not undergo any refereeing process other than verifying that the work seems to be within the scope of cryptology and meets some minimal acceptance criteria
• How Operating Systems Work
• Operating System Developers homepage
• Overview of Projects on Distributed Operating Systems -- at Department of CS, U. of Ulm.
• Review of Operating Systems
• Virtual Network Computing - VNC -- Access Personal Computer remotely
• Win2VNC -- a dual-screen hack for Windows. This program will let you use two screens on two different computers as if they were connected to the same computer. It even works between different operating systems.

 Books & Tutorials

• Cryptography and Network Security by William Stallings | Resources
• Multithreaded Programming with ThreadMentor: A Tutorial by C.-K. Shene
• Operating System Design & Implementation - Tutorial  -- by Mohan Raj Dhanagopal.
• Operating System Concepts Sixth Edition by Abraham Silberschatz  , Peter Baer Galvin  and Greg Gagne
• Operating Systems, Fourth Edition by William Stallings | Resources

 Nachos

• Guide to Nachos 5.0j by Dan Hettena & Rick Cox -- Nachos and Java.
• Nachos -- General Nachos documentation at U. of Washington.
• Nachos User-Level Remote Debugging With GDB -- at U. of Kansas.
• Reading Nachos Source Code -- by Michael O'Donnell, University of Chicago
• Road Map Through Nachos -- by Thomas Narten at Duke U.
      High-level overview of the source code which can be used as companion to overcome the initial learning curve encountered when learning and using the system.
• Salsa -- An Operating Systems Tutorial -- by Archna Kalra at U.Mass Amherst.

 Programming

• cpp-home -- wide range of C++ tutorials and codes.
• cprogramming.com
• C-lesson by Christopher Sawtell -- This archive contains a complete course to learn the 'C' computer language itself.
• LEARN C/C++ TODAY -- Annotated collection of tutorials on both C and C++.