Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles

by STALLINGS

Description Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles is acomprehensive and unified introduction to operating systems. Byusing several innovative tools, Stallings makes it possible tounderstand critical core concepts that can be fundamentallychallenging. The concepts are then enhanced and supported byend-of-chapter case studies of UNIX, Linux and Windows Vista. For Sale in Indiansubcontinent only Web-based animations illustrate important and complex OS mechanisms. A new chapter on embedded Operating Systems has been added Additional text and figures have been added to enhance clarity Now focuses on Windows Vista rather than Windows XP Computer System Overview Operating System Overview Process Description and Control 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 Embedded Operating Systems Networking (Online) Distributed Processing, Client/Server, and Clusters (Online) Distributed Process Management (Online) Computer Security (Online) William Stallings has made a unique contribution tounderstanding the broad sweep of technical developments in computernetworking and computer architecture. He has authored 17 titles,and counting revised editions, a total of 41 books on variousaspects of these subjects. He has seven times received the awardfor the best Computer Science textbook of the year from the Textand Academic Authors Association. Dr. Stallings holds a PhD from M.I.T. in Computer Scienceand a B.S. from Notre Dame in electrical engineering.

840 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2009