An operating system (OS) provides the interface between the users of a computer and that computer’s hardware. An operating system manages the ways applications access the resources in a computer, …

Mac OS X started as a hybrid architecture, although overtime it has become increasingly a traditional, monolithic architecture. Builds on the L4 microkernel to create a small, secure kernel. Provides …

A typical OS, in fact, exports a few hundred system calls that are available to applications. Because the OS provides these calls to run programs, access memory and devices, and other related actions, we …

One application at a time (MSDOS, CP/M, ...) Eventually PCs become powerful: OS regains all the complexity of a “big” OS multiprogramming, memory protection, etc (NT,OS/2) Question: As HW gets …

Summary OS virtualizes machine Provides each process with illusion of having whole machine to itself OS provides services Protection Sharing of resources Memory management File systems etc. …

Students can apply basic OS knowledge to domain-specific architectures (machine learning with GPUs or other parallelized systems, mobile devices, embedded systems, etc.).

My class includes material from operating systems, networks, databases, and embedded systems, but it emphasizes the topics programmers need to know. This book does not assume that you have …