Operating System Concepts |  | Authors: Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 8
Pages: 992
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Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 6.9 x 1.5
ISBN: 0470128720
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.43
EAN: 9780470128725
ASIN: 0470128720
Publication Date: July 28, 2008
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Keep pace with the fast-developing world of operating systems Open-source operating systems, virtual machines, and clustered computing are among the leading fields of operating systems and networking that are rapidly changing. With substantial revisions and organizational changes, Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne’s Operating System Concepts, Eighth Edition remains as current and relevant as ever, helping you master the fundamental concepts of operating systems while preparing yourself for today’s emerging developments. As in the past, the text brings you up to speed on core knowledge and skills, including: - What operating systems are, what they do, and how they are designed and constructed
- Process, memory, and storage management
- Protection and security
- Distributed systems
- Special-purpose systems
Beyond the basics, the Eight Edition sports substantive revisions and organizational changes that clue you in to such cutting-edge developments as open-source operating systems, multi-core processors, clustered computers, virtual machines, transactional memory, NUMA, Solaris 10 memory management, Sun’s ZFS file system, and more. New to this edition is the use of a simulator to dynamically demonstrate several operating system topics. Best of all, a greatly enhanced WileyPlus, a multitude of new problems and programming exercises, and other enhancements to this edition all work together to prepare you enter the world of operating systems with confidence.
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 Great Book September 23, 2008
Chris Mcclanahan
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Although I had to buy this book for a class, I do enjoy reading it. The book stays current by focusing on modern multi-core processors, and relating most concepts to Linux, Windows, and Solaris (plus sometimes others) operating systems. It is fairly easy to read, and there are programming exercises at the end of each chapter to highlight concepts. This book will definitely get your feet wet when learning operating system concepts.
A must-read good book November 10, 2009
book marker
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book gives you the concept of the computer operating systems. If you feel you need learn some operating system knowledge becasue you are not from a computer science major, and you can't find a good book yet, I'm seriously recommending this book to you.
A must read if you are a serious Software Engineer February 2, 2010
Javier Navarro (Dallas, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I used this book on my OS class in my MS in CS. I remember that back in college, I took OS with an older version of the same book, but now my perspective change drastically.
I you really want to take advantage of how an OS works and the techniques for managing resources and to apply this knowledge to your own programs, please read this book. If you like advanced topics such as multi-threading and multi-processing, it will help you to understand how the OS interacts with the user programs and how you can use different approaches such as thread kernel model, etc.
Excellent book September 26, 2009
Roshan J. Easo
One of the authors tipped me that this would be a good book, so I may be biased, but I felt that the level of technical detail is not too much to handle if you've had a computer architecture course as well as a couple classes in programming.
If you skim the book and sequentially dig in deeper and deeper at your own happy pace, it isn't too difficult to get the various (and many) terms.
However, I'm not sure if this book is simple enough to keep pace with a detailed course on the subject unless you're already familiar with the subject matter (I'm still early in my own course).
Detailed introduction with lots of recent information on Operatin Systems September 30, 2008
Hanoch Raviv
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I purchased this book for a class I take in operating system in local college. I like most about this book is the flow of information and the relative clear view about the subjects discussed. It is easy to read and to follow.
In addition, there are the slides that accompany the text and can be used in a classroom or as an overview of the material.
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