pt. 1. Introduction to Hardware, Software and Operating Systems -- 1. Introduction to Operating Systems -- 2. Hardware and Software Concepts -- pt. 2. Processes and Threads -- 3. Process Concepts -- 4. Thread Concepts -- 5. Asynchronous Concurrent Execution -- 6. Concurrent Programming -- 7. Deadlock and Indefinite Postponement -- 8. Processor Scheduling -- pt. 3. Physical and Virtual Memory -- 9. Real Memory Organization and Management -- 10. Virtual Memory Organization -- 11. Virtual Memory Management -- pt. 4. Secondary Storage, Files and Databases -- 12. Disk Performance Optimization -- 13. File and Database Systems -- pt. 5. Performance, Processors and Multiprocessor Management -- 14. Performance and Processor Design -- 15. Multiprocessor Management -- pt. 6. Networking and Distributed Computing -- 16. Introduction to Networking -- 17. Introduction to Distributed Systems -- 18. Distributed Systems and Web Services -- pt. 7. Security -- 19. Security -- pt. 8. Operating System Case Studies -- 20. Case Study: Linux -- 21. Case Study: Windows XP
