Book2014
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Remzi & Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau
Reduces the whole subject to virtualisation, concurrency and persistence, which is the right decomposition and free to read.
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Computer Science · Operating Systems
Processes & Threads
A topic within Operating Systems, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
Reading on Processes & Threads
22 works
Talk1996
Why Threads Are a Bad Idea (for most purposes)
John Ousterhout
Argues that shared-memory concurrency makes threaded programs unnecessarily hard to write correctly for most applications, and that event-driven designs reach the same goals more safely.
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