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Operating System Concepts
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Operating System Conceptsby Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and Greg Gagne
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful: Excellent textbook on the design of operating systems, January 13, 2006 Reviewer:calvinnme "Texan refugee" (Fredericksburg, Va) - All students of computer science need a fairly clear idea about what operating systems are and what should be expected from them. As a computer scientist you cannot just sneer at Microsoft Windows and say that it is not a well-designed OS without knowing what actually DOES constitute a well-designed OS. That is what this book is about- What constitutes a well-designed and complete operating system and all of the choices and design decisions that must be made along the way. Because this book is about operating system design concepts, you will find some pseudocode but not source code. If you want source code, the authors have an alternative edition, "Operating Systems Concepts with Java", published in 2003, where they offer actual design examples in the Java programming language. Although this is one of the best books published on operating system design, the high level of the discussion may cause the computer science student to find himself/herself asking exactly what is it to design an operating system? Thus a good companion to this book is an older text entitled "Design of the UNIX Operating System" by Bach. That book shows the implementation of the concepts of this book in the design of the UNIX operating system and also offers actual code. The two texts are best read together. The first part of this book, the overview, may be especially confusing to a novice to the subject. The clarity of the book greatly improves in part two, process management. There all aspects of process management including threads, deadlock avoidance, and synchronization are described as well as how to accomplish them. This section of the book, as well as sections three and four on memory and storage management, are where "Design of the UNIX Operating System" will be most helpful in illustrating concepts. The rest of the sections of the book are on topics that are much more modern and thus it is hard to find good supplemental texts. The last section of the book offers actual case studies on Windows XP and Linux and contrasts the features of those operating systems with the theory of the book. Also, there are appendices that analyze the design concepts of three older operating systems (the FreeBSD System, The Mach System and Windows 2000 System) that are published electronically on the net. To get the most from this book you should have already had a course in computer architecture at the upper undergraduate level and have some knowledge of a programming language such as C or Java so that you can implement and experiment with the concepts mentioned in this book.
Book Description
Another defining moment in the evolution of operating systems
Small footprint operating systems, such as those driving the handheld devices that the baby dinosaurs are using on the cover, are just one of the cutting-edge applications you'll find in Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne's Operating System Concepts, Seventh Edition.
By staying current, remaining relevant, and adapting to emerging course needs, this market-leading text has continued to define the operating systems course. This Seventh Edition not only presents the latest and most relevant systems, it also digs deeper to uncover those fundamental concepts that have remained constant throughout the evolution of today's operation systems. With this strong conceptual foundation in place, students can more easily understand the details related to specific systems.
New Adaptations
* Increased coverage of user perspective in Chapter 1.
* Increased coverage of OS design throughout.
* A new chapter on real-time and embedded systems (Chapter 19).
* A new chapter on multimedia (Chapter 20).
* Additional coverage of security and protection.
* Additional coverage of distributed programming.
* New exercises at the end of each chapter.
* New programming exercises and projects at the end of each chapter.
* New student-focused pedagogy and a new two-color design to enhance the learning process.
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Another defining moment in the evolution of operating systems
Small footprint operating systems, such as those driving the handheld devices that the baby dinosaurs are using on the cover, are just one of the cutting-edge applications you’ll find in Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne’s Operating System Concepts, Seventh Edition.
By staying current, remaining relevant, and adapting to emerging course needs, this market-leading text has continued to define the operating systems course. This Seventh Edition not only presents the latest and most relevant systems, it also digs deeper to uncover those fundamental concepts that have remained constant throughout the evolution of today’s operation systems. With this strong conceptual foundation in place, students can more easily understand the details related to specific systems.
New Adaptations
- Increased coverage of user perspective in Chapter 1.
- Increased coverage of OS design throughout.
- A new chapter on real-time and embedded systems (Chapter 19).
- A new chapter on multimedia (Chapter 20).
- Additional coverage of security and protection.
- Additional coverage of distributed programming.
- New exercises at the end of each chapter.
- New programming exercises and projects at the end of each chapter.
- New student-focused pedagogy and a new two-color design to enhance the learning process.
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