Overview: functions of Operating systems, layered architecture; basic concept; interrupt architecture, system calls and notion of a process and threads; synchronization and protection issues; scheduling; memory management including virtual memory management including virtual memory and paging techniques; i/o architecture and device management; file systems; distributed file systems; Case studies of Unix, Windows NT.

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