Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles

by William Stallings

Blending up-to-date theory with state-of-the-art applications, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of operating systems, with an emphasis on internals and design issues. It helps readers develop a solid understanding of the key structures and mechanisms of operating systems, the types of trade-offs and decisions involved in OS design, and the context within which the operating system functions (hardware, other system programs, application programs, interactive users). Process Description And Control. Threads, SMP, And Microkernels. Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion And Synchronization. Concurrency: Deadlock And Starvation. Memory Management. Virtual Memory. Uniprocessor Scheduling. Multiprocessor And Real-Time Scheduling. I/O Management And Disk Scheduling. File Management. Distributed Processing, Client/Server, And Clusters. Distributed Process Management. Security. For product development personnel (Programmers, Systems Engineers, Network Designers, and others involved in the design of data communications and networking products), Product marketing personnel, and Information system and computer system personnel.

Genres: Computer Science, Nonfiction, Programming, Technical, Computers, Reference, Textbooks

800 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

William Stallings is an American author. He has written computer science textbooks on operating systems, computer networks, computer organization, and cryptography.

Reviews

[Marc Isidre · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nah the book is well explained but I wanted to cry at every line while reading it.

[Mehdi Ebrahimi]

I have translated this book into Persian and it will be on the market in May 2007. The book is useful for people who want to take the national entrance exam for graduate studies. It has a more numerical perspective to scheduling algorithms.
You can ask me more abouty it: me.ebrahimi@gmail.com

[Britt Freeman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm in love with the subject matter and this book is well laid out. it might even handle the "well here's how Windows, Linux, etc. handle this issue..." than even the Silberschatz book. Though Silberschatz's book is pretty much the high water mark for the subject.
For a class.

[Soham Chakraborty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite good in getting your theories sorted out and make you more inquisitive in the delicacies of operating system. And if I remember correctly, this was part of syllabus in my curriculum.

[Yasin Asadi]

It's a good book and I have many experiences with that and it's really helpful, but remember it's not enough for learning. you'll need to look at other books too.

[Wanderer · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first chapter's practice problems are copied from his Computer Organization book.
He also dropped a few pages of information in regards to user-visible, segmented & stack-pointer registers between the 5th & 6th edition of the book...
I'm both a fan & a hater of his way of writing... He likes to unnecessarily prolong the 'explanation' of certain topics... I assume there was some financial incentive to write it in such a manner...
Though, I will add, the breadth of this book is definitely praiseworthy.
Don't expect to understand the “why does this exist?” or “what does this solve?” part of topics when reading this book for quite a few subjects it touches...

The worst part, however, is that the glossary of this book is locked behind online content since the 8th edition. This isn't only present in his OS book, but in his networking (Data & computer Communications), comp arch & cryptography book.
Solutions to exercises are not provided either.
Horrendous practice in technical books.

2,5 / 5 stars.

[Michelangelo Rubino · Rating 5 out of 5]

To be honest I had to read only the 5 chapters of the Part Four coupled with another book for an exam at the university. The style is clear as always for this author. The chapters on the RISC and the superscalar processors were quite tough. Anyway, very good manual.

[Alvaro Alcocer Sotil · Rating 5 out of 5]

Es un voluminoso libro que muestra toda la magia dentro de un sistema operativo.

[Vasil Kolev · Rating 2 out of 5]

There must be a better book on operating systems. Its selection of topics and some of the placements are plainly weird, and the explanations are confusing.

[Hardee Dholakia]

chg

[RJ]

Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles (6th Edition) (GOAL Series) by William Stallings (2008)

[Nivas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book describes the workings of Unix, Windows and other Operating systems. Read it in school

[Haneen · Rating 3 out of 5]

CSC308:Operating Systems
Spring 2012-2013
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[Terri Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Introduction to Operating Systems class

[Om Tiwari · Rating 5 out of 5]

i like it.

[Ahmed Aaj]

operating system

[Hassaan · Rating 5 out of 5]

بسيط و واضح و أمثلته ممتازة, و واضح ان كتبه كانت منتشرة ف مصر ف بداية القرن, النهاردة لاقيتله كتاب تاني اسمه Data & computer communication و شكله كتاب محترم برضه

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

(read this before Goodreads, added this review years after reading the book)

Probably enjoyed it.

[Lurdes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lo leí como parte de una materia de la carrera

[Ara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wild

UPDATE: super wild

[Augusto Pellegrinetti · Rating 4 out of 5]

0.8

[Irwan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Part of the syllabus in Computer Science

[Ahtisham Haq]

nothing

[Salman Khan]

what a useless site u have i cannot even download this file nor i can read totally phatatic waste of time

[NKWAJJU ANGELLO]

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