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OS Fundamentals

 * Kernel (computing)
 * Ring (computer security)
 * Hypervisor
 * Endianness
 * Interrupt
 * Trap (computing)
 * System call
 * Context switch
 * Unix signal
 * Memory management
 * Direct memory access
 * Virtual memory
 * Virtual address space
 * Memory barrier
 * Memory segmentation
 * Shared memory
 * Page (computer memory)
 * Paging
 * Demand paging
 * Page cache
 * Page table
 * Page fault
 * Segmentation fault
 * Memory-mapped file
 * Consistency model
 * Process (computing)
 * Light-weight process
 * Thread (computing)
 * POSIX Threads
 * Fork (system call)
 * Disk storage
 * Disk sector
 * Block (data storage)
 * Volume (computing)
 * Journaling file system
 * Hard disk drive performance characteristics
 * Input/output
 * Memory-mapped I/O
 * Inter-process communication
 * Lock (computer science)
 * Mutual exclusion
 * Monitor (synchronization)
 * Semaphore (programming)