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Operating System Concepts Hardcover - 2012

by Silberschatz, Abraham; Galvin, Peter B.; Gagne, Greg

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  • Title Operating System Concepts
  • Author Silberschatz, Abraham; Galvin, Peter B.; Gagne, Greg
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 9
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 976
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley, U.S.A.
  • Date December 2012
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1118063333-7-1-13
  • ISBN 9781118063330 / 1118063333
  • Weight 3.3 lbs (1.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.9 x 7.2 x 1.4 in (25.15 x 18.29 x 3.56 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Operating systems (Computers)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013372096
  • Dewey Decimal Code 005.43

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Summary

Operating System Concepts, now in its ninth edition, continues to provide a solid theoretical foundation for understanding operating systems. The ninth edition has been thoroughly updated to include contemporary examples of how operating systems function. The text includes content to bridge the gap between concepts and actual implementations. End-of-chapter problems, exercises, review questions, and programming exercises help to further reinforce important concepts. A new Virtual Machine provides interactive exercises to help engage students with the material.

From the publisher

New, updated content throughout including increased coverage of multicore systems and parallel programming, new coverage of mobile systems including IOS and Android, updated coverage of Memory, and an update of the Linux chapter to include the 3.4 kernel.New chapters on virtual machines and Windows 7.Integrated coverage of Linux and Windows throughout.Streamlined the second half of the book by consolidating three networking chapters into one completely rewritten chapter and eliminating the multimedia chapter.Many new exercises, programming problems, and programming projects.Offers a more interactive experience with exercises using a Linux Virtual Machine with GCC development environment and Linux source code distribution

Table of contents

PART ONE OVERVIEWChapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Operating-System StructuresPART TWO PROCESS MANAGEMENTChapter 3 ProcessesChapter 4 ThreadsChapter 5 Process SynchronizationChapter 6 CPU SchedulingChapter 7 DeadlocksPART THREE MEMORY MANAGEMENTChapter 8 Main MemoryChapter 9 Virtual MemoryPART FOUR STORAGE MANAGEMENTChapter 10 Mass-Storage StructureChapter 11 File-System InterfaceChapter 12: File-System ImplementationChapter 13 I/O SystemsPART FIVE PROTECTION AND SECURITYChapter 14 ProtectionChapter 15 SecurityPART SIX ADVANCED TOPICSChapter 16 Virtual MachinesChapter 17 Distributed SystemsPART SEVEN CASE STUDIESChapter 18 The Linux SystemChapter 19 Windows 7Chapter 20 Influential Operating SystemsPART EIGHT APPENDICESAPPENDIX A BSD UNIXAPPENDIX B The Mach System

About the author

Abraham Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories. Prior to that, he held a chaired professorship in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include database systems, operating systems, storage systems, and network management.
Professor Silberschatz is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. He received the 2002 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the 1998 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and the 1997 ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award. In recognition of his outstanding level of innovation and technical excellence, he was awarded the Bell Laboratories President's Award for three different Projects -- the QTM Project (1998), the DataBlitz Project (1999), and the NetInventory Project (2004).
Professor Silberschatz' 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. He has also written Op-Ed articles for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Hartford Courant, among others.

Peter Baer Galvin is the chief solutions architect for Pluribus Networks (www.pluribusnetworks.com). Previously he was the CTO for the systems integrator Corporate Technologies, and a lecturer at Boston University. He has also been a columnist for;login:, SunWorld, and SysAdmin magazines, and has written articles for Byte and other magazines. Mr. Galvin blogs for anewdomain.net and byte.com. As a consultant and trainer, he has given talks and tutorials on security and system administration worldwide.

Greg Gagne is chair of the Computer Science department 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, parallel programming, and software engineering. He has made presentations at educational conferences and also provides workshops to industry professionals. Professor Gagne was the recipient of the Shaw Faculty Publication Prize in 2007.

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