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Operating System Concept is the best-selling introduction in the market, continues to provide a solid theoretical foundation for understanding operating systems. The seventh edition has been updated to offer coverage of the most current topics and applications, improved conceptual coverage and additional content to bridge the gap between concepts... Moreand actual implementations. The new two-color design allows for easier navigation and motivation. New exercises, lab projects and review questions help to further reinforce important concepts. Table of contents : Part I Overview · Introduction · System Structures Part II Process Management · Process-Concept · Multithreaded Programming · Process Scheduling Part III Process Coordination · Synchronization · Deadlocks Part IV: Memory Management · Memory-Management Strategies · Virtual-Memory Management Part V: Storage Management · File System · Implementing File Systems · Secondary-Storage Structure · I/O Systems Part VI Distributed Systems · Distributed Operating Systems · Distributed File Systems · Distributed System Structures Part VII Protection And Security · System Protection · System Security Part VIII Special-Purpose Systems · Real-Time Systems · Multimedia Systems · The Linux System · Windows XP · Influential Operating Systems Appendix A: UNIX BSD Appendix B: The Mach System Appendix C: Windows 2000 Market Description : · Students and Professionals seeking a thorough introduction to operating systems About Author : Abraham Silberschatz is a Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was the Vice President of t5he Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Prior5 to that, he held a chaired professorship in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interest includes operating systems, database systems, real-time systems storage systems, network management, and distributed systems. In addition to his academic and industrial positions, Professor Silberschatz served as a member of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Panel on President Clinton`s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, as an advisor for the National Science Foundation, and as a consultant for several private industry companies. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He received the 2002 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award the 1998 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the 1997 ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award, and the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Paper award for the article "Capability Manager which appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. His writings have appeared in numerous ACM and IEEE publications and other professional conferences and journals. He is a coauthor of the textbook Database System Concepts. Greg Gagne is chair of the Division of Computer Science and Mathematics at Westminster College in Salt Lake City where he has been teaching since 1990. In addition to teaching operating systems, he also teaches computer networks, distributed systems, object-oriented programming, and data structures. He also provides workshops to computer science educators and industry professionals. Professor Gagne`s current research interests include next-generation operating systems and distributed computing. He is the chief technologist for Corporate Technologies. Before that, Peter was the systems manager for Brown University`s Computer Science Department. He is also contributing editor for SysAdmin magazine. Mr. Galvin has written articles for Byte and other magazines, and previously wrote the security column and systems administration column for ITWORLD. As a consultant and trainer, Peter has given talks and taught tutorials on security and system administration worldwide
ISBN : 9788126509621
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