Introduction to Operating System Design and Implementation: The OSP 2 Approach

by Michael Kifer, Scott Smolka

OSP 2 is both an implementation of a modern operating system and a flexible environment for generating implementation projects appropriate for an introductory course in operating system design. This book is an introduction to the design and implementation of operating systems using OSP 2, the next generation of the highly popular OSP courseware for undergraduate operating system courses.


Topics and Process and thread management; Memory, Resource and I/0 device management; Interprocess communication; Gives opportunity to practice these skills in a realistic operating systems programming environment.


This book contains enough projects for up to 3 semesters, exposing students to many essential features of operating systems, while at the same time isolating them from low-level machine-dependent concerns. Thus, even in 1 semester, students can learn about page-replacement strategies in virtual memory management, CPU-scheduling strategies, disk seek-time optimization & other issues in operating system design.

Kindle Edition

First published December 31, 2006

Reviews

[John Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ugh, this is a difficult book. It was used in my course as ahelper to project assignments (based on the book) involving OSP. I didn't think the explanations or exercises were coherent enough to be very helpful.