Operating Systems

Pre-requisites, Topics and outcomes

Course name: BCA. II year, 2023

Pre-requisites: C Programming and Computer fundamentals, Computer Architecture and Organization

Introduction to Operating Systems

Topics:

Operating Systems Definitions, Types of operating system, Functionalities and Characteristics of OS, Hardware Concepts related to OS, Operating system Services, System Calls, System structure.

Introduction Course aims, course outlines, computer system, introduction to os, abstract view of os, what happens when you run a program?, what does os do?, OS manages cpu, memory, and io, goals of os, history of os Take a test!!
Operating systems types and process introduction Recommended reading. Types of os, batch system, multi-programming, real-time os, multi-process os, time-sharing os, distributed os, monolithic os
Home assignment #1 (deadline: Sept 12, 2023)
User and Operating System Interface OS structure, user and os interface, command interpreter, system calls, some unix commands, implementing cat command, gui, system calls

Process Management

Topics:

Process concepts. Process state & process control block, process scheduling, scheduling criteria, scheduling algorithms, multiple-processor scheduling, real-time scheduling, threads, threads in linux

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