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Operating System Concepts

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Lecture 124 August 2026

Operating System Fundamentals, Kernel, and System Software

Introduction to operating systems, OS roles and resource management, processes, kernel and user space, system calls, system and application software, development tools, middleware, embedded and network software, utility programs, and device drivers

Lecture 231 August 2026

Operating System Types and Architecture

Types of operating systems including batch processing, multiprogramming, time-sharing, GUI-based, networked, mobile, and AI-powered systems, along with OS architectures such as simple, monolithic, and microkernel designs

Lecture 37 September 2026

Operating System Types and Structures

OS structures including simple, monolithic, microkernel, layered, and modular architectures

Lecture 414 September 2026

Spooling, Processes, Threads, and Process Management

Spooling and buffering, process management foundations, processes and programs, threads, process states and transitions, and Process Control Block (PCB)

Lecture 521 September 2026

Process Control Block (PCB), CPU Registers, Process Scheduling, and Queues

Process Control Block (PCB) components, program counter, process priority and aging, PCB pointers, open files, CPU registers, memory and I/O information, scheduling information, and process queues

Lecture 628 September 2026

Process Scheduling and Types of Schedulers

Understanding process scheduling in operating systems, the roles of long-term, short-term, and medium-term schedulers, process movement between queues, and common CPU scheduling algorithms

Lecture 75 October 2026

Threads and Multithreaded Programming

Understanding threads, thread components, process and thread differences, advantages of multithreading, user-level threads, kernel-level threads, and their advantages and disadvantages

Lecture 812 October 2026

Multithreading Models and Process Synchronization

Understanding many-to-one, one-to-one, and many-to-many threading models, multicore programming, concurrency, implicit threading, inter-process communication, critical sections, and synchronization tools