Modern Operating Systems

For Introductory Courses in Operating Systems in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering programs. The widely anticipated revision of this worldwide best-seller incorporates the latest developments in operating systems (OS)technologies. The Third Edition includes up-to-date materials on relevant OS such as Linux, Windows, and embedded real-time and multimedia systems. Tanenbaum also provides information on current research based on his experience as an operating systems researcher. Student Resources Include: *Online Exercises - Provide hands-on experience with building as well as analyzing the performance of OS. In particular, these exercises have been designed to provide experience with analyzing the resource consumptions in Windows and Linux.*Simulation Exercises - Designed to provide experience with building some key components of an OS, including process scheduling, main memory allocation, paging algorithms and virtual memory, and file systems.*Lab Experiments*GOAL: Prentice Hall's premier online homework and assessment system for Java Programming, OS, and Database Systems courses in Computer Science.Password-Protected Instructor Resources (Select the Resources Tab to View Downloadable Files): *Power Point Lecture Slides*Figures in both . jpeg and .eps file format*Solutions to Exercises*GOAL: Prentice Hall's premier online homework and assessment system for Java Programming, OS, and Database Systems courses in Computer Science.

ISBN 0136006639   Pages 1104 ISBN13 9780136006633 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Pearson Education (US)   Weight (grammes) 1756 Imprint Prentice Hall   Published in Upper Saddle River Format Hardback   Height (mm) 235 Publication date 11 Dec 2007   Width (mm) 178 Library of Congress QA76.76   Spine width (mm) 43 DEWEY 005.43   Academic level Tertiary education DEWEY edition DC22

		Preface
1		Introduction		1
1.1		What is an Operating System?		3
1.2		History of Operating Systems		7
1.3		Computer Hardware Review		19
1.4		The Operating System Zoo		33
1.5		Operating System Concepts		37
1.6		System Calls		49
1.7		Operating System Structure		62
1.8		The World According to C		72
1.9		Research on Operating Systems		76
1.10		Outline of the Rest of this Book		77
1.11		Metric Units		78
1.12		Summary		79
2		Processes and Threads		83
2.1		Processes		83
2.2		Threads		95
2.3		Interprocess Communication		117
2.4		Scheduling		145
2.5		Classical IPC Problems		163
2.6		Research on Processes and Threads		168
2.7		Summary		169
3		Memory Management		175
3.1		No Memory Abstraction		176
3.2		A Memory Abstraction: Address Spaces		179
3.3		Virtual Memory		188
3.4		Page Replacement Algorithms		201
3.5		Design Issues for Paging Systems		216
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