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Operating Systems, 3/E
Harvey M. Deitel, Deitel & Associates, Inc.
Paul J. Deitel, Deitel & Associates, Inc.
David R. Choffnes, Deitel & Associates, Inc.

ISBN-10: 0131828274
ISBN-13: 9780131828278

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2004
Format: Cloth; 1272 pp
Published: 12/12/2003
Status: Instock

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For one- and two-semester Operating Systems courses (in the most recent ACM/IEEE curriculum) that universities offer to juniors, seniors and graduate Computer Science students.

The text goes beyond the standard coverage in operating systems courses with key chapters on multiprocessing, networking, distributed systems, performance, and security. The text features extensive, up-to-the-minute case studies on the latest versions of Linux (2.6) and Microsoft Windows XP. An abundance of charts, diagrams, illustrations and exercises (both with and without solutions) is included.

Conforms to all core requirements and elective topics of the IEEE/ACM's CC2001 Operating Systems course (except for shell scripting).

Approximately 300 charts, tables and illustrations and extensive Web resources in every chapter.

Hundreds of self-review questions and answers (two after each section).

End-of-chapter and end-of-book glossaries with approximately 1800 terms defined.

Pseudocode in C/C++/Java-like syntax.

Works Cited section at the end of every chapter.

Multithreading treatments in pseudocode and Java.

100+ page case studies of Linux 2.6 and Windows XP 100+.

Mini case studies on key operating systems.

Biographic features on key operating systems people.

"Operating Systems Thinking" features.

Anecdotes.

Preface.

I. INTRODUCTION TO HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND OPERATING SYSTEMS.

1. Introduction to Operating Systems

2. Hardware and Software Concepts

II. PROCESSES AND THREADS.

3. Process Concepts.

4. Thread Concepts.

5. Asynchronous Concurrent Execution.

6. Concurrent Programming.

7. Deadlock and Indefinite Postponement.

8. Processor Scheduling.

III. PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL MEMORY.

9. Physical Memory Organization and Management.

10. Virtual Memory Organization.

11. Virtual Memory Management.

IV. SECONDARY STORAGE, FILE SYSTEMS AND DATABASE SYSTEMS.

12. Disk Performance Optimization.

13. File Systems and Database Systems.

V. PERFORMANCE, PROCESSORS AND MULTIPROCESSOR MANAGEMENT.

14. Performance and Processor Design.

15. Multiprocessor Management.

VI. NETWORKING AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING.

16. Networking.

17. Introduction to Distributed Systems.

18. Distributed File Systems, Clustering Peer-to-Peer Computing and Web Services.

VII. SECURE COMPUTING.

19. Security and Protection.

VIII. OPERATING SYSTEM CASE STUDIES.

20. Case Study: Linux (2.6).

21. Case Study: Windows XP.

Appendix A. Number Systems.

Appendix B. Java.

Appendix C. XML.

Appendix D. Linux License (GPL).

Appendix E. Operating System Simulators.

Operating Systems (OS) (Computer Science)

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©2004 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131453165 | ISBN-13: 9780131453166
URL: http://www.prenhall.com/deitel

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