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Operating System Concepts, 8th, Update Edition
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, July 2011, Pages: 972
The best-selling and most respected text available, Operating System Concepts, Eighth Edition Update, provides a solid theoretical foundation for understanding operating systems. This Update Edition incorporates coverage of the most current topics in the rapidly changing field of operating systems --including Windows 7 and open-source operating systems.
Written as a text for an introductory course in operating systems at the junior or senior undergraduate level or at the first-year graduate level, Operating Systems Concepts presents a clear description of the concepts that underlie operating systems. As prerequisites, the authors assume that the student is familiar with basic data structures, computer organization, and a high-level language, such as C or Java.
Key features:
- Uses real-world operating systems to illustrate fundamental operating system concepts
- Particular attention is paid to the Microsoft family of operating systems and various versions of UNIX (Solaris, BSD, and Mac OS X)
- Currency of coverage
- Guided by many comments and suggestions from users and the authors' own observations about the rapidly changing fields of operating systems, chapter material represents the most current thought and practice in operating systems
- Coverage of open-source operating systems (Chapter 1)
- Abundant opportunity for student practice
- WileyPLUS includes algorithmically generated problems
- Simulators provide demonstrations and activities
- 15 new (to the 8e) programming problems
- Programming Projects - More involved than standard programming exercises
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