Lecture Operating systems: A concept-based approach: Chapter 1 - Dhananjay M. Dhamdhere
Lecture Operating systems: A concept-based approach: Chapter 1 - Dhananjay M. Dhamdhere
This chapter discusses how users perceive user convenience, how an operating system achieves efficient use of resources, and how it ensures security and protection. It introduces the notion of effective utilization of a computer system as the combination of user convenience and efficient use that best suits a specific computing environment. It also describes the fundamental tasks involved in management of programs and resources, and in implementing security and protection.