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Stallings, William.

Operating systems : internals and design principles / William Stallings. - Sixth edition. - Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Education International, 2009. - xviii, 822 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes index

Part one: Background.
Computer system overview --
Operating system overview --
Part two: Processes.
Process description and control --
Threads, SMP, and microkernels --
Concurrency: mutual exclusion and synchronization --
Concurrency: deadlock and starvation --
Part three: Memory.
Memory management --
Virtual memory --
Part four: Scheduling.
Uniprocessor scheduling --
Multiprocessor and real-time scheduling --
Part five: Input/output and files --
I/O management and disk scheduling--
File management --
Part six: Embedded systems.
Embedded operating systems--
Part seven: Security.
Computer security threads
Computer security techniques
Part eight: Distributed systems.
Distributed processing, client/server, and clusters --


ISBN: 9780136006329 0136006329 9780136033370 0136033377

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Operating systems (Computers)

LC Class. No.: QA76.76.O63 / .S73