MERLOT Materials

An operating system simulation showing processes as they flow through an operating system.

This material provides a series of video lectures on operating systems and system programming.

The course presents an overview of the history and structure of modern operating systems, analyzing in detail each of the... see more

This website contains links to many interesing animations from a number of sources. These animations are very useful to... see more

This is a textbook from 1988, published by Prentice Hall, but now in the public domain. It covers basic operating systems... see more

A good tutorial on how operating systems work to control a computer system.

Students will take a research publication and analyze it based on approaches introduced in class. They will then present... see more

In the previous video we looked at the basics of operating systems. In this video we take a look at the current operating... see more

This open textbook for Operating Systems was created under an ALG Affordable Materials Grant. Topics covered include OS... see more

This course will introduce you to modern operating systems. We will focus on UNIX-based operating systems, though we will... see more

Rashid Bin Muhammad at Kent State University presents his page of lectures notes and other instructional materials on... see more

Video 3 of our Introduction to Computer course. This course looks at the basics of operating systems. We take a look at... see more

6.828 teaches the fundamentals of engineering operating systems. The following topics are studied in detail: virtual... see more

This book is about Windows operating system written for courses in operating systems. The book provides both an... see more

Operating systems are the main gears in all computing devices. They are low-level software programs that can manage... see more

This course presents an overview of the Microsoft Windows Operating System (OS), with emphasis on the OS design,... see more

This is a free textbook that is offered by Amazon for reading on a Kindle. Anybody can read Kindle books—even without a... see more

"This operating system quality and approval metric is based on a periodic AltaVista search for each of several operating... see more

This lesson plan, created by members of the computer science department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI),... see more

This Web site from the University of Bridgeport provides the context and explanation for CPU scheduling mechanisms. It... see more

'In this book, you will learn about all three kinds of interaction. In all three cases, interesting software techniques... see more

A collection of seven flash animations designed to help students understand a range of topics for an operating systems... see more

In this book, you will learn about all three kinds of interaction. In all three cases, interesting software techniques... see more

This book is intended primarily for the secondary-level and university-level learners of an electromechanical profile,... see more