Operating Systems

This course presents the various services offered by a modern operating system. It examines in depth the procedures required for the management of the processor, the memory, the file system and the Input/Output devices. The course studies the problems arising during the design of an operating system and the solutions utilized by modern operating systems.

Objectives

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Prerequisites

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Syllabus

Principles of operating Systems, types end evolution of operating systems. Processor Management, process states and scheduling. Inter-process communication and synchronization, semaphores. Management of main and secondary memory, virtual memory, Input/Output. File management. Resource management and deadlocks. Examples of modern operating systems. Interfacing of operating systems with programming languages.