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 2: Concurrency
In this volume, we provide a concrete methodology for writing correct concurrent programs that is in widespread use in industry, and we explain the mechanisms for context switching and synchronization from fundamental concepts down to assembly code.

515 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 31, 2015

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Reviews

[Scott Holstad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Second book in a four part series. Quite good, but honestly, while I dig operating systems and what goes into them, on inside them, how to work with them, etc., even these are proving to be a bit too much. Information overload. Of course, I'd rather have too much than too little, but still. We're talking about a hell of a lot of info in the series. Recommended, but only if you start with the first book...