Operating systems notes

Introduction to Operating Systems

What the OS really does for you, and the road ahead. Every section is a drawn page beside a clear written explanation, about 10 minutes in all.

  • Introduction
  • About 10 minutes
  • 8 sections

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The first drawn page of Introduction to Operating Systems: Why the OS matters for engineers
The chapter's first page: Why the OS matters for engineers

In this chapter

  • Why the OS matters for engineers
  • What an operating system actually is
  • The line between your code and the kernel
  • Processes, threads & scheduling
  • Concurrency, synchronization & deadlock
  • Memory & virtual memory
  • Storage, I/O & file systems
  • The big picture and roadmap

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