1: The Basics - An Overview Last updated Save as PDF Page ID 45623 Patrick McClanahan San Joaquin Delta College 1.1: Introduction to Operating Systems 1.2 Starting with the Basics 1.3 The Processor - History 1.3.1: The Processor - Components 1.3.2: The Processor - Bus 1.4 Instruction Cycles 1.4.1 Instruction Cycles - Fetch 1.4.2 Instruction Cycles - Instruction Primer 1.5 Interrupts 1.6 Memory Hierarchy 1.7 Cache Memory 1.7.1 Cache Memory - Multilevel Cache 1.7.2 Cache Memory - Locality of reference 1.8 Direct Memory Access 1.9 Multiprocessor and Multicore Systems