Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction
by Max Hailperin
Publisher: Gustavus Adolphus College 2011
ISBN/ASIN: 0534423698
Number of pages: 563
Description:
Intended for juniors, seniors, and first-year graduate students, this book takes a modern approach to the traditional Operating Systems course. By using this innovative text, students will obtain an understanding of how contemporary operating systems and middleware work, and why they work that way. They will also gain practical skills including the ability to reason about and program concurrent computations, understand hardware/software interactions, use empirical measurement to guide design, and analyze system security.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(2.7MB, PDF)
Similar books
Lecture Notes on Operating Systemsby Marvin Solomon - Unversity of Wisconsin -- Madison
Intended as a general introduction to the techniques used to implement operating systems and related kinds of systems software. Among the topics covered will be process management; processor scheduling; deadlock prevention, avoidance, and recovery.
(7052 views)
The Operating Systems Handbook: Unix, Openvms, Os/400, Vm, and MVSby Bob DuCharme - McGraw-Hill
This book will help readers who are experts using one of the five most popular mainframe and mid-range operating systems become skilled users of the other four. Includes concise tutorials, step-by-step examples and quick-reference material.
(9668 views)
Operating Systemsby Hugh Murrell - University of KwaZulu-Natal
Contents: Introduction to Unix; ANSI C for Programmers on UNIX Systems; Operating Systems Theory (Process Synchronization, InterProcess Communication under Unix, Deadlock, Scheduling, Virtual Memory and Paging, Computer Security, etc.).
(4886 views)
A Short Introduction to Operating Systemsby Mark Burgess
The lecture notes that cover most of the basic topics of operating systems: key concepts, single-task OS, multi-tasking and multi-user OS, processes and thread, memory and storage, networks - services and protocols, TCP/IP, security considerations.
(17858 views)