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CourseOperating Systems: Process Synchronization and Memory Management
Learn about Operating Systems and how to synchronize processes and handle memory management.
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Continue your Operating Systems learning journey! In this course, you will learn about synchronization, which ensures that threads in a multi-threaded program use shared resources safely. You will also learn about the operating system’s role in controlling processes’ access to our computer’s memory.
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