Operating System

A program that runs programs.

Resources

• Textbook: Operating System Concepts | Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne
  • Website — contains slides, exercises, a study guide (like a cheat sheet), etc.
• Putting the "You" in CPU | CPU Land
  • What happens after you run a program?
  • Basic modes, multitasking, exec, ELF, paging, fork, etc.

Links

• A video game where you are an operating system (HN)
  • Fun for nerds. Handle CPU cores, processes, memory pages and swap space
• Linux kernel map
• Hello World (HN)
  • What happens when you compile and run a hello world program in C, down to the assembly level, standard library, syscall and then kernel