Operating systems are the backbone of modern computing and play a crucial role in managing the resources of a computer. The design and implementation of an operating system involve a wide range of ...

Examines the structure and function of operating systems as an intermediary between applications and computer hardware. Topics include OS design goals, hardware management, multitasking, process and ...

Topics include processes, concurrency and synchronization, deadlock, processor allocation, memory management, I/O devices and file management, and distributed processing. Techniques in operating ...

MINIX originally was developed in 1987 by Andrew S. Tanenbaum as a teaching tool for his textbook Operating Systems Design and Implementation. Today, it is a text-oriented operating system with a ...

One of the coursebooks that Linus used was Andrew Tanenbaum's Operating Systems: Design and Implementation. As well as a wealth of detailed information about how to write an operating system ...

Tanenbaum, an academic at a Dutch university, wrote a book: “Operating Systems: Design and Implementation“. It contained as its teaching example a UNIX-like operating system called MINIX ...