Introduction and Contents

• An OS is a resource manager and it gives us convenience and efficiency of usage of hardware! 
• Some of the most widely used operating systems in the world (Nov. 2023)

• Windows
• Mac
• Linux
• Unix
• Android
• iOS
• Most of the operating systems these days are written in C/C++

• Process Management(All about CPU management) (Things we see in Activity monitor in Mac or Task Manager in Windows)
• Scheduling
• IPC(Inter Process Communication) & Synchronization
• Concurrency
• Deadlocks
• Threads
• Memory/RAM Management
• RAM Organization
• Techniques
• Virtual Memory
• File System and Device Management
• Interface
• Implementation Details
• Protection and Security Mechanisms
• Books
• Operating Systems by Galvin
• Stalligns
• Modern OS - Tannenbaum

Contents

• John Von Neumann Architecture