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Pooja Gupta, Lovely Professional University Unit 1: Operating System

Unit 1: Operating System Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
1.1 History of Operating Systems
1.1.1 Today
1.1.2 Unix-like Family
1.1.3 Microsoft Windows
1.1.4 Other Systems
1.2 History of Personal Computers
1.2.1 Uses
1.3 Operating System Meaning
1.4 Supervisor and User Mode
1.4.1 Some Examples from the PC World
1.5 System Calls
1.5.1 The Library as an Intermediary
1.5.2 Examples and Tools
1.5.3 Typical Implementations
1.5.4 Types of System Call
1.6 Kernel
1.6.1 Categories of Kernels
1.6.2 The Monolithic versus Micro Controversy
1.7 Operating System Functions
1.7.1 What is an Operating System?
1.7.2 What does a Driver do?
1.7.3 Other Operating System Functions
1.7.4 Operating System Concerns
1.7.5 Types of Operating System
1.8 Hardware ASMP
1.8.1 Overview
1.8.2 Differences between Hardware ASMP and SMP
1.9 Software ASMP
1.9.1 Overview
1.9.2 Differences between Software ASMP and SMP
1.9.3 Modern Applications of ASMP
1.9.4 Graphical Representation of Asymmetric Multiprocessing
1.10 Multitasking
1.11 Distributed Systems
1.11.1 Client-Server Systems
1.11.2 Peer-to-Peer Systems

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