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Operating System Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States6.1810
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2023English
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This is a course on the design and implementation of operating systems and their use as a foundation for systems programming. Topics covered include virtual memory; file systems; threads; context switches; kernels; interrupts; system calls; and interprocess communication, coordination, and interaction between software and hardware. A multi-processor operating system for RISC-V, xv6, is used to illustrate these topics.

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