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Operating Systems: IO Systems

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Overview

Learn about IO Hardware and Software and how they interact with your Operating System.
Continue your Operating Systems learning journey! IO systems are a combination of hardware and software tools that help a user interact with a computer successfully. In this course, you'll learn about how the operating system interacts with IO hardware and software.



### Take-Away Skills
This course will cover content such as:
* The three general categories of IO devices
* Device drivers
* User-space and kernel-space
* Interrupt Handlers

### Notes on Prerequisites
We recommend that you complete [Operating Systems: Filesystems](https://www.codecademy.com/learn/operating-systems-filesystems) before completing this course.

Syllabus

  • IO Systems: Learn about how the operating system manages IO devices.
    • Article: Introduction to IO Systems
    • Lesson: IO Hardware
    • Lesson: IO Software
    • Quiz: IO Systems Quiz
    • Article: IO Systems Problem Set
    • Informational: Next Steps

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