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The fourth edition of this book has expanded coverage of memory management (modern computer architectures) and file system design and implementation. The book features expanded discussion of parallel, distributed and real-time systems. It now includes a tutorial appendix based on the NACHOS operating system, new material on atomicity and expanded coverage of protection and security. All the hardware issues in this edition are covered in one chapter for ease of understanding. Common operating systems (MS-DOS, OS/2, Macintosh, SunOS 5) are used throughout the book to illustrate concepts and to provide examples of performance characteristics. The coverage of UNIX and the Mach operating system has also been expanded. All the chapters include a summary and exercises.

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• Part One Overview
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Operating-System Structures
• Part Two Process Management
• Chapter 3 Processes
• Chapter 4 Threads
• Chapter 5 CPU Scheduling
• Chapter 6 Process Synchronization
• Chapter 7 Deadlocks
• Part Three Memory Management
• Chapter 8 Main Memory
• Chapter 9 Virtual Memory
• Part Four Storage Management
• Chapter 10 File-System Interface
• Chapter 11 File-System Implementation
• Chapter 12 Mass-Storage Structure
• Chapter 13 I/O Systems
• Part Five Protection and Security
• Chapter 14 Protection
• Chapter 15 Security
• Part Six Distributed Systems
• Chapter 16 Distributed System Structures
• Chapter 17 Distributed File System
• Chapter 18 Distributed Coordination
• Parta Seven Special Purpose Systems
• A Chapter 19 Real-Time Systems
• Chapter 20 Multimedia Systems
• Part Eight Case Studies
• Chapter 21 The Linux Systems
• Chapter 22 Windows XP
• Chapter 23 Influential Operating Systems
• Appendix A UNIX BSD (contents online)
• Appendix B The Mach System (contents online)
• Appendix C Windows 2000 (contents online)
• Bibliography
• Credits
• Index

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Abraham Silberschatz is the director of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Prior to joining Bell Labs, he held a chaired professorship in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Silberschatz is a Fellow of the ACM.
Peter Baer Galvin is the Chief Technologist for Corporate Technologies, a systems-integration and consulting company. He is also Adjunct Systems Planner for Brown University's Computer Science Department. Mr. Galvin is on the Board of Directors for the Sun User Group. He is the security columnist for SunWorld Magazine.