Operating Systems: Principles and Practice

by Thomas Anderson, Michael Dahlin

Operating Systems: Principles and Practice is a textbook for a first course in undergraduate operating systems. In use at dozens of top tier universities, and written by two leading operating systems researchers with decades of experience successfully teaching complex topics to thousands of students, this textbook provides:
-- A path for students to understand high level concepts all the way down to working code.
-- Extensive worked examples integrated throughout the text provide students concrete guidance for completing homework assignments.
-- A focus on up-to-date industry technologies and practice

The e-book version of Operating Systems: Principles and Practice is broken into 4 volumes:
Volume 1: Kernels and Processes
Volume 2: Concurrency
Volume 3: Memory Management
Volume 4: Persistent Storage

This is Volume 1: Kernels and Processes
In this volume, we describe the essential steps needed to isolate programs to prevent buggy applications and computer viruses from crashing or taking control of your system.

Genres: Computer Science, Programming, Technology

296 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 25, 2015

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Reviews

[Heidi Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Surprisingly readable textbook

[مجتبى]

first book of 2024