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OS Fundamentals[edit]

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)