Operating Systems (BLGM242)
Operating system definition, simple batch systems, multiprogramming, time-sharing, personal computer systems, parallel systems, introduction to process, process scheduling, operations on processes, cooperating processes, interprocess communications, interrupts, basic concepts of threads, process synchronization, critical-section problem, atomic instructions, semaphores, synchronization problems, CPU scheduling, scheduling criteria and algorithms, multiple processes and real-time scheduling, algorithm evaluation, deadlocks, characterization and handling of deadlocks, deadlock prevention avoidance and detection, deadlock recovery, memory management and virtual memory, address spaces, swapping, memory allocation, paging, segmentation.