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• What is an Operating System? [link]
• Four Fundamental OS Concepts [link]
• Computer Hardware: An Overview [link]
• Hexadecimal [link]
• Modern CPU Architecture 2 [link]
• 10+ Key Memory & Storage Systems [link]
• How Linux is Built [link]

• Assembly Language & Computer Architecture [link]
• Procedures and Stacks [link]
• Call Stacks [link]
• Stack Detective [link]
• Why is the Stack so fast? [link]

• Abstractions 1: Threads and Processes [link]
• How a Linux System Call Works [link]
• Scheduling 1: Concepts and Classic Policies [link]
• Scheduling 2: Case Studies, Real Time, and Forward Progress [link]
• Scheduling 3: Deadlock [link]
• Creating new processes with fork()! [link]
• Making forked clones more useful with exec()! [link]

• How Does Linux Boot Process Work? [link]
• Linux File System Explained! [link]
• Latency Numbers Programmer Should Know [link]
• General I/O, Storage Devices [link]
• General I/O (Con't), Storage Devices, Performance [link]
• Filesystems 1: Performance (Con't), Queueing Theory, Filesystem Design [link]
• Filesystems 2: Filesystem Design (Con't), Filesystem Case Studies [link]
• Filesystems 3: Case Studies (Con't), Buffering, Reliability, and Transactions [link]
• Abstractions 2: Files and I/O [link]

• Why is the Heap so slow? [link]
• Dynamic Memory Allocation using malloc() [link]
• Basics of Virtual Memory [link]
• Building the MMU [link]
• MMU Improvements [link]
• Address Translation Walkthrough [link]
• Memory 1: Address Translation and Virtual Memory [link]
• Memory 2: Virtual Memory (Con't), Caching and TLBs [link]
• Memory 3: Caching and TLBs (Con't), Demand Paging [link]
• Memory 4: Demand Paging Policies [link]

Wikipedia Articles

Computer architecture [link]

• 64-bit computing [link]
• Moore's law [link]
• Von Neumann architecture [link]
  • Motherboard [link]
  • Random-access memory [link]
  • Central processing unit [link]
    • Processor register [link]
    • Arithmetic logic unit [link]
    • Branch predictor [link]
    • Instruction pipelining [link]
    • Cache (computing) [link]
      • CPU cache [link]
    • Instruction set architecture [link]
• Machine code [link]
  • Compiler [link]
    • Compile time [link]
    • Runtime (program lifecycle phase) [link]
    • Linker (computing) [link]
    • Runtime library [link]
  • Disassembler [link]
  • Call stack [link]
  • Stack-based memory allocation [link]
  • Calling convention [link]
  • Branch (computer science) [link]

Systems programming [link]

• Assembly language [link]
• C (programming language) [link]
• Rust (programming language) [link]
• Interpreter (computing) Compilers versus interpreters [link]
• Variable (computer science) [link]
  • Pointer (computer programming) [link]
  • Null pointer [link]
  • Dangling pointer [link]
  • Memory address [link]
  • Garbage collection (computer science) [link]
  • Evaluation strategy [link]
• Array (data structure) Efficiency [link]
• Linked list [link]
• Data buffer [link]
• Buffer overflow [link]
• Stack overflow [link]
• Lock (computer science) [link]

System virtual machine [link]

• X86 virtualization [link]
• VirtualBox [link]
• QEMU [link]

Operating system [link]

• Unix-like [link]
  • POSIX [link]
  • Unix [link]
    • NetBSD [link]
    • FreeBSD [link]
      • MacOS [link]
        • Darwin (operating system) [link]
    • SunOS [link]
  • Linux [link]
    • Linus Torvalds [link]
    • Linux distribution [link]
      • Ubuntu [link]
      • Debian [link]
      • OpenSUSE [link]
      • Fedora Linux [link]
      • Arch Linux [link]
      • Gentoo Linux [link]
      • SteamOS [link]
  • Minix [link]
    • Andrew S. Tanenbaum [link]
    • Intel Management Engine [link]
  • Android (operating system) [link]
  • ChromeOS [link]
• Microsoft [link]
  • MS-DOS [link]
  • Microsoft Windows [link]
• Kernel (operating system) [link]
  • Monolithic kernel [link]
  • Microkernel [link]
• Real-time operating system [link]

Process (computing) [link]

• Computer multitasking [link]
• Instruction cycle [link]
  • Instruction register [link]
  • Code segment [link]
  • Program counter [link]
• Context switch [link]
• System call [link]
  • Fork (system call) [link]
  • Exec (system call) [link]
• Interrupt [link]
  • Interrupt handler [link]
• CPU modes [link]

Scheduling (computing) Summary [link]

• Nice (Unix) [link]
• Round-robin scheduling [link]
• Multilevel feedback queue [link]
• Completely Fair Scheduler [link]
  • Red–black tree [link]
• Earliest eligible virtual deadline first scheduling [link]

Unix shell [link]

• Pipeline (Unix) [link]
• List of POSIX commands [link]
  • Man page [link]
  • Cat (Unix) [link]
  • More (command) [link]
  • Ls [link]
  • Ln (Unix) [link]
  • Cp (Unix) [link]
  • Mv (Unix) [link]
  • Rm (Unix) [link]
  • Mkdir [link]
  • Ps (Unix) [link]
  • Kill (command) [link]
• Top (software) [link]
• Stat (system call) [link]

File system [link]

• Disk partitioning [link]
• File locking [link]
• Inode [link]
  • Ext2 [link]
  • Hard link [link]
  • File descriptor [link]
• File Allocation Table [link]
• Journaling file system [link]
  • Ext4 [link]
  • NTFS [link]
  • Apple File System [link]

Input/output [link]

• Bus (computing) [link]
  • Memory bus [link]
  • System bus [link]
  • SATA [link]
  • Peripheral Component Interconnect [link]
  • USB [link]
• Northbridge (computing) [link]
• Southbridge (computing) [link]
• Memory-mapped I/O and port-mapped I/O [link]
• Disk storage [link]
  • Direct memory access [link]
  • Disk controller [link]
  • Logical block addressing [link]
  • Hard disk drive [link]
    • Cylinder-head-sector [link]
    • Disk read-and-write head [link]
    • Hard disk drive performance characteristics [link]
      • Seek time [link]
      • Revolutions per minute [link]
    • I/O scheduling [link]
      • Shortest seek first [link]
      • Elevator algorithm [link]
      • Anticipatory scheduling [link]
  • Solid-state drive [link]
    • Flash memory NAND flash [link]
    • Wear leveling [link]
• Polling (computer science) [link]
• Asynchronous I/O [link]
• Device driver [link]

Memory management [link]

• Out of memory [link]
• Thrashing (computer science) [link]
• Virtual memory [link]
• Memory paging [link]
  • Page (computer memory) [link]
  • Page table Multilevel page tables [link]
  • Memory management unit [link]
  • Translation lookaside buffer [link]
  • Page fault [link]
    • Bélády's anomaly [link]
  • Page replacement algorithm [link]
    • Locality of reference [link]
    • Working set [link]
• Shared memory [link]

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