Operating System I

Overview of OS; Introduction to Operating Systems; Some examples of operating systems, Objectives of Operating Systems and Role, History of Operating Systems, Operating Systems Structure; System Components, Operating Systems Services, System Calls and System Programs, Process Management, CPU Scheduling, Scheduling Algorithms, Memory Management, Functionality Mechanisms to Support Client-server models, hand-held devices, Design Issues, Influences of security, networking, multimedia, Windows, O/S Principles: Structuring methods, Abstraction, processes of resources, Concepts of APIs, Device organization, Interrupts.