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Chapter 1

Operating System Roles and Abstractions

Part of Fundamentals of Operating System Concepts

Central question: How does the operating system bridge the gap between physical hardware and user applications through virtualization and resource management?

Objectives

  • Deconstruct CPU Virtualization
  • Model Memory Virtualization
  • Abstract Persistent Storage

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