Silberschatz, Abraham. <br/><br/>
Operating system concepts / 
Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin. 
 - 4th ed. 
 - Reading, Mass. :  Addison-Wesley,  c1994. 
 - xvi, 780 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> CONTENTS<br/><br/>Introduction<br/>what is an operating system<br/>early systems<br/>simple systems<br/>simple batch systems<br/>multiprogrammed batched systems<br/>e.tc<br/><br/><br/>Computer-system structures<br/>computer-system operation<br/>I/O structure<br/>storage structure<br/>storage hierachy<br/>hardware protection<br/>e.tc<br/><br/>Operating-system structures<br/>system components<br/>operating-system services<br/>system calls<br/>e.tc<br/><br/>Processes<br/>process concept<br/>process scheduling<br/>operation on processes<br/>cooperating processes<br/>e.tc<br/><br/>CPU scheduling<br/>basic concepts<br/>scheduling criteria<br/>scheduling algorithms<br/>multiple-processor scheduling<br/>e.tc<br/><br/>Process Synchronization<br/>background<br/>the critical-section problem<br/>synchronization hardware<br/>e.tc<br/><br/>Deadlocks<br/>system model<br/>deadlock characterization<br/>methods for handling deadlocks<br/>e.tc<br/><br/>Memory management<br/>background<br/>logical versus physical<br/>swapping<br/>contiguous allocation<br/>e.tc<br/><br/>Virtual memory<br/>background<br/>demand paging<br/>performance of demand paging<br/>e.tc<br/><br/>File-system interface<br/>file concept<br/>access methods<br/>directory structure<br/>protection<br/>e.tc<br/><br/>File-system implementation<br/>file-system structure<br/>allocation methods<br/>free-space management<br/>e.tc<br/><br/>Secondary storage structure<br/>disk structure<br/>disk scheduling<br/>disk management<br/>e.tc<br/><br/>Protection<br/>goals of protection<br/>domain of protection<br/>access matrix<br/>implementation of access<br/>e.tc<br/><br/>Security<br/>the security problem<br/>authentication<br/>program threats<br/>system threats<br/>e.tc<br/><br/>Network structures<br/>background<br/>motivation<br/>topology<br/>network types<br/>e.tc<br/><br/>Distributed-system structures<br/>network-operating system<br/>distributed system structures<br/>distributed file systems<br/>distributed coordination<br/><br/>The UNIX System<br/>The Mach system<br/>Historical perspective<br/>The Nachos System<br/> 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 715-744) and index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0201504804 9780201504804 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Operating systems (Computers)
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>005.4/3  / SIL