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Kernel Models

• Monolithic Kernel
• Microkernel
• Exokernels and their kind (including Nanokernels, Cache Kernels, Virtualizing Kernels, ...)
• Modular Kernel

Task Models

• Monotasking Systems
• Multitasking Systems
• Real-Time Systems

Memory and Resource Management

• Physical, Virtual, Paging, help?!?
• What segments are About?
• Allocating and freeing memory
• File management
• Algorithms and tips for memory management

Scheduling

• Tasks, processes and threads
• Context switching
• Scheduling algorithms
• Multiprocessor scheduling
• Sleeping and waiting processes

Process Sychronization / Inter-Process Communication

• Semaphores, mutexes, spinlocks et al.
• Signals
• Message passing
• Shared memory
• Remote procedure calls