Basic Bites References

Basic Bites Index

Platform

OS models

Memory

Virtual memory

Scheduling

Work scheduling

I/O

I/O models

System Res

System-wide shared resources

Programming

Program models

Execution

Native vs. Managed

Types

Copy, Move, Reference

Functions

Functions, methods, lambdas

Safety

Avoiding undefinded behavior

Platform API

Access to OS API

Structure

Code structures

Functions

Functions, methods, lambdas

Object Model

Instance semantics

Lifetime

Construction to Destruction

Res Mgmt

Alloc & Dealloc

Ownership

Single owner, borrowing

Summary

Native vs Managed

Native

Pros & cons

Managed

Pros & cons

"Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work."
- Garrison Wynn

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Platform References	Comments
Microsoft Windows - Wikipedia	Proprietary operating system developed by Microsoft, based on OS/2 which was jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft.
POSIX - Wikipedia	Portable Operating System Interface (POSIx) defines system and user-level programming interfaces, modeled after several closely related UNIX systems.
Linux - Wikipedia	Family of open source UNIX like operating systems.
Android - Wikipedia	Mobile operating system based on Linux kernel, designed for touch-screen interactions.
MacOS - Wikipedia	Proprietary Operating System developed by Apple for Apple desktop and laptop computers.