Operating
systems have become an integral part of computing today, and
professionals working in this field will need all the help that they can
get to learn about the intricacies involved in designing and
maintaining them...
Operating System Concepts provides a good and deep coverage of operating system concepts, practices and trends...
As in the past, the text brings you up to speed on core knowledge and
skills, including What operating systems are, what they do, and how
they are designed and constructed...
Process, memory, and storage
management; Protection and security, Distributed systems,
Special–purpose systems; Beyond the basics...
The Eight Edition sports
substantive revisions and organizational changes that clue you in to
such cutting–edge developments as open–source operating systems,
multi–core processors, clustered computers, virtual machines,
transactional memory, NUMA, Solaris 10 memory management, Sun’s ZFS file
system, and many more...
Each chapter ends with a concise summary of the topics covered, and
practice exercises. In addition, every chapter ends with bibliographical
notes regarding references used, which could provide additional study
material for students...
New to this edition is the use of a simulator to
dynamically demonstrate several operating system topics. Best of all, a
greatly enhanced WileyPlus, a multitude of new problems and programming
exercises, and other enhancements to this edition all work together to
prepare you enter the world of operating systems with confidence...
About the Authors:
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 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 technologist for Corporate Technologies www.cptech.com, a computer facility reseller and integrator. Before that, Mr. Galvin was the systems manager for Brown University's Computer Science Department. He is also Sun columnist for ;login: magazine. Mr. Galvin has written articles for Byte and other magazines, and has written columns for Sun World and SysAdmin magazines. As a consultant and trainer, he has given talks and taught 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, distributed systems, and software engineering. He also provides workshops to computer science educators and industry professionals...
