A Short Introduction to Operating Systems
An introductory lecture notes of Operating Systems at the University College Oslo, Norway.
Tag(s): Operating Systems
Publication date: 03 Oct 2001
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A Short Introduction to Operating Systems
An introductory lecture notes of Operating Systems at the University College Oslo, Norway.
Publication date: 03 Oct 2001
ISBN-10: n/a
ISBN-13: n/a
Paperback: n/a
Views: 160,461
Document Type: Lecture Notes
Publisher: n/a
License: n/a
Post time: 22 Apr 2005 02:56:33
These are the lecture notes of Operating Systems, courtesy of Mark Burgess, a full professor at the Faculty of Engineering of University College Oslo, Norway. As with other lecture notes, these are relatively short (168 pages) for a subject traditionally covered in thick volumes.
The notes cover most of the basic topics of operating systems. Readers will find these lecture notes as a decent introduction material that should give them a good grasp on the subject of operating systems.
Topics covered include:
- key concepts, resources and sharing, resource management and spooling
- single task
- multi tasking and multi user
- processes and threads
- memory and storages, physical and virtual
- networks, services and protocols
- security, super users, firewall
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About The Author(s)
Mark Burgess (@markburgess_osl) is a theoretician and practitioner in the area of information systems, whose work has focused largely on distributed information infrastructure. He is known particularly for his work on Configuration Management and Promise Theory. He was the principal Founder of CFEngine, and is Emeritus Professor of Network and System Administration from Oslo University College. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and papers on topics from physics, Network and System Administration, to fiction. He also writes a blog on issues of science and IT industry concerns.
Mark Burgess (@markburgess_osl) is a theoretician and practitioner in the area of information systems, whose work has focused largely on distributed information infrastructure. He is known particularly for his work on Configuration Management and Promise Theory. He was the principal Founder of CFEngine, and is Emeritus Professor of Network and System Administration from Oslo University College. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and papers on topics from physics, Network and System Administration, to fiction. He also writes a blog on issues of science and IT industry concerns.