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Chapter 7:

Operating System support


Figure 7.1
System layers
Applications, services
Computer &
Platf orm
Middleware
OS: kernel,
libraries &
servers
net work hardware
OS1
Computer &
net work hardware
Node 1 Node 2
Processes, t hreads,
communicat ion, . ..
OS2
Processes, t hreads,
communicat ion, . ..
Figure 7.2
Core OS functionality
Communicat ion
manager
Thread manager Memory manager
Superv isor
Process manager
Figure 7.3
Address space
St ack
Text
Heap
Auxiliary
regions
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2
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