Applied Operating System Concepts

by Abraham Silberschatz

This new book provides a clear description of the concepts that underlie all operating systems, using a real language--Java--to present many of the ideas. Rather than concentrating on a particular operating system or hardware, the authors discuss key concepts that are applicable to a wide variety of systems such as processes and inter-process communication, process scheduling, memory management, and IO. In addition to numerous examples of current operating systems, the book includes chapter-long case studies of UNIX, LINUX, and Windows NT.

Genres: Nonfiction, Computer Science, Computers, School, Reference, Technical

Hardcover

First published August 11, 1999

About the author

Abraham Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor & Chair of Computer Science at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories. Prior to that, he held a chaired professorship in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
Professor Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He received the 2002 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the 1998 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and the 1997 ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award. In recognition of his outstanding level of innovation and technical excellence, he was awarded the Bell Laboratories President's Award for three different projects - the QTM Project (1998), the DataBlitz Project (1999), and the Netlnventory Project (2004).
Professor Silberschatz' writings have appeared in numerous ACM and IEEE publications and other professional conferences and journals. He has also written Op-Ed articles for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Hartford Courant, among others.

Reviews

[Hiếu Minh · Rating 4 out of 5]

sd

[Said Hashimi · Rating 5 out of 5]

good

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

(read this before Goodreads, added this review years after reading the book)

Probably enjoyed it.