Operating Systems course guide To follow along with "Three Easy Pieces"

Explain the mechanisms that an operating system utilizes to allow multiple processes to be run on a limited number of CPUs

Describe and contrast the policies that the operating system might employ for scheduling processes to run

Explain the mechanisms employed by the operating system in order to virtualize the physical memory so that processes don’t need to know anything about the physical layout of their memory.

Explain the mechanisms and policies involved in using persistent storage to provide the illusion that there is more available memory than there actually is.

Describe how threads allow a process to have multiple threads of computation concurrently, and the challenges that this brings up.

Describe the core mechanisms used for implementing concurrency (locks, condition variables, semaphores).

Describe the main mechanisms and policies involved in the file abstraction and persisting information to a persistent storage medium.

Describe the journaling and log-based system mechanisms that ensure a file system can recover from something like a power outage.

Examine the code of a small operating system, and identify how the various OS concepts are implemented.

Make suitable modifications to the small OS code in order to implement new features.