Introduction To Operating Systems

What it covers

This 39-lecture NPTEL course from Prof. Chester Rebeiro at IIT Madras opens with the course introduction and PC hardware. The word introduction recurs through the list, suggesting several units begin with a fresh overview. It then follows how programs become processes and how the CPU is shared between them.

Memory, boot and calls

Later lectures cover virtual memory, MMU mapping and segmentation, plus memory management in xv6. Booting a PC and the system calls that create, run and exit processes come next, with interrupts closing the list.

The mix of hardware, memory and system-call material gives a grounded view of how an OS works with the machine.