A obra continua a evoluir com as necessidades emergentes do curso, visando fornecer uma base teórica sólida para o entendimento de sistemas operacionais. A oitava edição foi atualizada para oferecer a cobertura dos temas e aplicativos mais atuais, melhor cobertura conceitual e conteúdo adicional para preencher a lacuna entre os conceitos e implementações reais. Ao final de cada capítulo, haverá exercícios, perguntas de revisão e exercícios de programação que ajudarão a reforçar conceitos importantes. Esta versão fornece exemplos e problemas em Java, uma linguagem que muitos estudantes estão mais confortáveis com que o C da versão regular.
Abraham Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor & Chair 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. Professor Silberschatz 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, 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 Netlnventory Project (2004). Professor Silberschatz' writings have appeared in numerous ACM and IEEE publications and other professional conferences and journals. He has also written Op-Ed articles for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Hartford Courant, among others.