Module 0141: What is an operating system?

Tak Auyeung, Ph.D.

November 26, 2008
1 About this module
2 Examples of Operating Systems
3 The layers of an OS
 3.1 Device driver
 3.2 Protocol/Standard stacks
 3.3 File systems
 3.4 System calls
 3.5 Services
 3.6 Sockets
4 But how about security?
 4.1 Threat exposure
 4.2 Threat limitation