by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne. This is a Junior level course for computer science majors. An operating system is perhaps the most complex collection of software that exist. In this course you will learn the concepts needed for designing modern operating systems. We will be discussing how the OS interfaces with the application software and the hardware of the computer system. We will investigate all of the key features of a modern operating system including process/thread scheduling and management, memory management, deadlock detection and avoidance, file management, disk scheduling and management, and some collection of advanced topics including security and networking.

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