Operating Systems
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Author(s):
Author:
Sibsankar Haldar
- ISBN:9788131715482
- Price:Rs. 375.00
- Pages:612
- Imprint:Pearson Education
- Binding:Paperback
- Status:Available
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Designed to meet the needs of undergraduate computer science students, Operating Systems follows the principle of top-down design and bottom-up development. The discussion of key concepts with few references to technologies helps the reader grasp the fundamentals easily.
Table of Content
- Overview
- Hardware Platforms
- Software Platforms
- Processes and Threads
- CPU Management
- Interprocess Communications
- Process Synchronization
- Memory Management
- Virtual Memory
- I/O Device Management
- File Systems
- System Call, Interrupt and Exception
- Protection and Security
- Storage Hierarchy and Caching
- Real-time and Embedded Operating Systems
- Distributed Operating System
- Linux Operating System
- Windows XP
Salient Features
- Platform-independent, in-depth discussion of fundamental concepts
- Lucid explanation of the solutions to the problem of process synchronization
- An overview chapter that introduces relevant concepts and related terms
- Running marginalia that presents additional information without disrupting the continuity of the text
- Two detailed technological case studies, on Linux 2.6 and Microsoft Windows XP
- Over 650 end-of-chapter questions and exercises
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