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Lecture 01
Introduction
What is an Operating System?
The Evolution of Operating Systems
Course Outline
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What is an Operating System?
• A program that acts as an intermediary
between a user of a computer and the
computer hardware.
• Operating system goals:
– Execute user programs
– Make solving user problems easier
– Allocate resources in a efficient and fair way
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Abstract View of System Components
They want low cost and efficient services
user 1
user 2
user n
They want to have an easy life (don’t have to worry about speeds,
use of file instead of blocks, large memory, etc)
compiler
text editor
database system
Operating System
Hardware
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lots of different components,
with different speds,
different protocols for communication
Services given by an
Operating System
• Efficient program execution
– Keeping all the devices busy
– Good throughput for the user
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Access to I/O devices
Controlled access to system and files
Error detection and response
Accounting
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Evolution of Operating Systems
Serial Processing
• From the late 1940s to the mid-1950s
• There was no Operating System
– These machines were run from a console, consisting of display
lights, toggle switches, some form of input device, and a printer
• Job scheduling
– A user used a sign-up sheet to reserve machine time.
• How to run a job?
– Load the compiler and source program into memory
– Save the object program
– Loading and linking together the object program and common
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Evolution of Operating Systems
Simple Batch Systems
• Mid-1950s
• The users did not interact directly with the computer
system. The operator would sort programs into batches
with similar requirements.
• The user prepared a job. A Monitor executed the job.
$JOB
$FTN
<FORTRAN instructions>
$LOAD
$RUN
<data>
$END
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Memory Layout For a Resident
Monitor
Interrupt
Processing
Device
Drivers
Job
Sequencing
Control Language
Interpreter
Monitor
Boundary
User
Program
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From Operating Systems.
Internals and Design Principles.
W. Stalling. Prentice Hall
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There are some hardware features
desirable
• Memory protection
the user program should not alter the monitor’s
area
• Timer
to prevent a single job from monopolizing the
system
• Privileged instructions
I/O instructions by example
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Multiprogrammed Batch Systems
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time
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Effects of Multiprogramming
Uniprogramming Multiprogramming
Processor use
17%
33%
Memory use
30%
67%
Disk use
33%
67%
Printer use
33%
67%
Elapsed time
30 min.
15 min.
Throughput rate
6 jobs/hr
12 jobs/hr
Mean response time 18 min.
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From Operating Systems.
Internals and Design Principles.
W. Stalling. Prentice Hall
Time-sharing systems
• 1960s, they become common early 1970s
• Multiprogramming allows the processor to handle multiple
batch jobs at a time
– Main objective: Maximize processor use
• Multiprogramming can be used to handle multiple
interactive jobs: time -sharing
– Main objective: Minimize response time
• Processor time is shared among multiple users
• Multiple users simultaneously access the system through
terminals
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Primitive Time-sharing
Operating System
Monitor
Monitor
Monitor
job 1
job 2
job2
free
job3
free
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Monitor
job1
job3
free
New problems for the
Operating Systems
• Multiple jobs are in memory
– They must be protected from interfering with each
other
• Multiple interactive users
– The file system must be protected so that only
authorized users have access to a particular file
• The contention for resources, such as
printers and mass storage devices, must be
handled
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Characteristics of Modern Operating Systems.
What forces a change?
Developments in hardware
New applications
• Multiprocessor machines
• Greatly increased machine
speed
• High-speed network
attachments
• Increasing size and variety
of memory storage
services
• Multimedia applications
• Internet and Web access
• client/server computing
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Characteristics of Modern Operating Systems
Microkernel architecture
• A microkerner architecture assigns only a
few essential functions to the kernel, such
as
– Address spaces
– Interprocess communication
– Basic scheduling
• The microkernel approach simplifies
implementation, provides flexibility, and is
well suited to a distributed environment
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Characteristics of Modern Operating Systems
Multithreading
• Multithreading
– technique in which a process, executing an application,
is divided into threads that can run simultaneously
• Thread
– dispatchable unit of work
– executes sequentially and is interruptable
• Process
– collection of one or more threads
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Characteristics of Modern Operating Systems
Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)
• Systems with multiple multiprocessors
– there are multiple processors
– these processors share same main memory and I/O facilities
– All processors can perform the same functions
• Advantages over uniprocessor architectures
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Performance
Availability
Incremental growth
Scaling
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Characteristics of Modern Operating Systems
Distributed operating systems
• provides the illusion of a single main
memory
• used for distributed file system
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Outline of the Course
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Processes
Memory
I/O devices
File systems
Protection and security
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