Operating Systems (BCA-52T-111) II Semester

Operating Systems (BCA-52T-111) is an English medium BCA II Semester textbook for students of University of Rajasthan, PDUS, RRBM and MSB universities. The book begins with operating system concepts, types of software, linkers, loaders and compilers, and then explains OS structures including the kernel, shell, BIOS, booting, system calls and virtual machines. Process management follows, with process states, the process control block, threads and CPU scheduling algorithms such as FCFS, SJF, priority, round robin and multilevel queue scheduling. Later chapters cover process synchronization and the critical section problem, deadlocks, memory management with paging, segmentation, virtual memory and page replacement, file management, and device management with DMA and disk scheduling. A detailed section on Linux explains its kernel, process and memory management, file system, security, basic commands and shell scripts, followed by an introduction to UNIX and Windows Server. Written by Dr. Vijay Singh Rathore, Dr. Subhash Chandra Jat, Dr. Vijeta Kumawat and B. Uma Maheswari as per the latest syllabus, the 2024 edition has 400 pages. Useful for BCA II Semester students studying paper BCA-52T-111.