- Hardcover: 976 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 6th Edition/Windows XP Update edition (8 Mar 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471250600
- ISBN-13: 978-0471250609
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16 x 4.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,162,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Operating systems are large and complex, and yet must function with near-absolute reliability--that's why they're a class unto themselves in the field of software development. Since its first release 20 years ago, "the dinosaur book"--Operating System Concepts by Avi Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and Greg Gagne--has been a valuable reference for designers and implementers of operating systems. The newly released sixth edition of this book maintains the volume's authority with new sections on thread management, distributed processes, and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). There's also information on the workings of the latest crop of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows 2000, Linux, FreeBSD, and compact operating systems for handheld devices.
This book is concerned with the design of operating systems, which is to say it enumerates the problems that pop up in the creation of efficient systems and explores alternative ways of dealing with them, detailing the advantages and shortcomings of each. For example, in their chapter on scheduling CPU activity, the authors explain several algorithms (first-come, first-served, and round-robin scheduling, among others) for allocating the capacity of single and multiple processors among jobs. They highlight the relative advantages of each, and explain how several real-life operating systems solve the problem. They then present the reader with exercises--this book is essentially a university textbook--that inspire thought and discussion. --David Wall
Topics covered: The problems faced by designers of system software for electronic computers, and strategies that have been developed over the past 20 years to address (and, in some cases, solve ) them. Problems of CPU scheduling, memory allocation, paging, processes and threads, storage management, distributed processes and storage mechanisms, and security are all discussed thoroughly and with many authoritative references. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Silberschatz: Operating Systems Concepts, 6/e Windows XP Update Edition, the best selling introductory text in the market, continues to provide a solid theoretical foundation for understanding operating systems. The 6/e Update Edition offers improved conceptual coverage, added content to bridge the gap between concepts and actual implementations and a new chapter on the newest Operating System to capture the attention of critics, consumers, and industry alike: Windows XP.
∗ Brand new chapter on the newest operating system, Windows XP.
∗ Brand new chapter on Threads has been added and includes coverage of Pthreads and Java threads.
∗ Brand new chapter on Windows 2000 replaces Windows NT.
∗ Out with the old, in with the new! All code examples have been rewritten and are now in C.
∗ Client–server models and NFS coverage has been moved to an earlier part of the text.
∗ More, more, more... The sixth edition now offers increased coverage of small footprint operating systems such as PalmOS and real–time operating systems.
∗ Updated! Core material in every chapter has been updated, as has coverage of Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD.
∗ Brand new chapter on the newest operating system, Windows XP.
∗ Brand new chapter on Threads has been added and includes coverage of Pthreads and Java threads.
∗ Brand new chapter on Windows 2000 replaces Windows NT.
∗ Out with the old, in with the new! All code examples have been rewritten and are now in C.
∗ Client–server models and NFS coverage has been moved to an earlier part of the text.
∗ More, more, more... The sixth edition now offers increased coverage of small footprint operating systems such as PalmOS and real–time operating systems.
∗ Updated! Core material in every chapter has been updated, as has coverage of Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book gives an excellent introduction to complexity; while also containing some details of more advanced topics in the field. It's an excellent book if you're not too confident in your operating system. However, if you are an expert in computer science, you will find this book quite bored.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I really tried to like this book, but it kept annoying me profoundly with repetitious, simplistic coverage of issues that I found more pithily explained in Andrew Tanenbaum's "Operating Systems : Design and Implementation" (I'd definitely recommend that book over this one). On the plus side, there are some nice sidebars on real OSes, such as a fine presentation of the Solaris lightweight process model. But overall a disappointment: the book seems to have been rewritten too many times to have coherence.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Excellent book for beginners. I enjoyed reading it, but i noticed that there are many repeated paragraphs throughout the text. This makes exam studies tedious.
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Very helpful if concepts are the concern.
As the title says this book is about concepts on Operating Systems. From this point of view the book is written very carefully. Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2003 by G. Avvinti
it helped me pass
I am at University of Glasgow, and found this indispensible for the 3rd yr operating systems module. Read more
Published on 11 Jun 2002
Great book for CS courses!
After reading a portion of this book from a friend in a 300 level CS course, I found that this book explains everything in a way that I can understand it within a reasonable... Read more
Published on 23 May 1999
Nice real-life examples, but badly organized and written
I really tried to like this book, but it kept annoying me profoundly with repetitious, simplistic coverage of issues that I found more pithily explained in Andrew Tanenbaum's... Read more
Published on 6 Jan 1999
Very good
I didn't read any other book on operating systems. But I think this is one is very worth reading. (This is also a test to see if Amazon.com will post this message for me!)
Published on 25 Sep 1998
GREAT!
Wow!! I borrowed a copy from a friend thinking I would look at a few concepts.... couldnt put the book down, I had to get my own copy.
Published on 5 Aug 1998
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