Covers the operating system's role as a referee in managing resources and ensuring security through fault isolation, resource sharing, and communication.
Covers the historical increase in memory cells per chip, the importance of memory in modern IC architectures, the dramatic increase in test time, and various memory faults.
Covers the concept of virtual memory and the isolation of processes through address spaces, discussing segmentation, paging, and memory implementation details.
Provides an overview of computer architecture, focusing on the von Neumann architecture and its components, including the CPU and memory management units.
