This class centered around the boot sequence. On getting to understand the hardware pieces mentioned in boot: I found this link very helpful and informative with the virtual tour link that gives a nice overview as well as many other internal links going into more specifics depending on what pieces of hardware I wanted to […]
Month: August 2017
A Few Big OS Concepts
A Few Big OS Concepts What does the OS do? Provides the interface between the user/application and the hardware. This is done through System calls, or the library functions that call them. There are system calls for pretty much everything you (or a program) can ask the hardware to do (process instantiation, memory allocation, file […]