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outline
- A
- Processes
- B
- CPU Scheduling
- C
- Process Synchronization
summary
- process is the execution of a program
- creation, execution, deletion of processes
- OS schedules which process gets the CPU next
- many processes appear to run concurrently
- orderly (synchronized) access to shared data
- Interprocess Communication (IPC)
- semaphores and shared data
- messages
Subsections
Ted Billard
2001-11-17