Introduction to Operating System (OS)
What an operating system does as the computer's central controller, and how it keeps many users safe on one machine.
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Class 10 · Chapter 1
This chapter looks inside the operating system, the software that controls every part of a computer. You will learn how it is built, how it runs many programs at once, and how it uses memory, threads and system calls. You will also see how it organizes your files, and meet four main types of operating systems: real-time, embedded, network and mobile.
What an operating system does as the computer's central controller, and how it keeps many users safe on one machine.
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How the parts of an operating system are organized: kernel and shell, layers, system libraries and device drivers.
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How the operating system creates, runs and ends processes, switches between them, and decides their order with FCFS.
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What RAM does, how virtual memory helps when RAM is full, and why virtual memory makes the computer slower.
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The difference between a process and a thread, and how multithreading makes programs faster and more responsive.
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How programs ask the operating system to do hardware work for them, and the four main types of system calls.
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How the operating system stores and organizes your data using files, folders, metadata and file systems like NTFS and FAT 32.
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Four types of operating systems, real-time, embedded, network and mobile, and the devices each one is built for.
2 min read
What an operating system does as the computer's central controller, and how it keeps many users safe on one machine.
3 min read
How the parts of an operating system are organized: kernel and shell, layers, system libraries and device drivers.
3 min read
How the operating system creates, runs and ends processes, switches between them, and decides their order with FCFS.
3 min read
What RAM does, how virtual memory helps when RAM is full, and why virtual memory makes the computer slower.
3 min read
The difference between a process and a thread, and how multithreading makes programs faster and more responsive.
3 min read
How programs ask the operating system to do hardware work for them, and the four main types of system calls.
2 min read
How the operating system stores and organizes your data using files, folders, metadata and file systems like NTFS and FAT 32.
2 min read
Four types of operating systems, real-time, embedded, network and mobile, and the devices each one is built for.
2 min read