Lecture Operating system concepts (Fifth edition): Module 2 - Avi Silberschatz, Peter Galvin
Lecture Operating system concepts (Fifth edition): Module 2 - Avi Silberschatz, Peter Galvin
Module 2 - Computer-system structures. Chapter 2 discusses the general structure of computer systems. It may be a good idea to review the basic concepts of machine organization and assembly language programming. The students should be comfortable with the concepts of memory, CPU, registers, I/O, interrupts, instructions, and the instruction execution cycle. Since the operating system is the interface between the hardware and user programs, a good understanding of operating systems requires an un