About the Book: Operating Systems
For one and two semester Operating Systems courses (in the most recent ACM/IEEE
curriculum) that universities offer to juniors, seniors and graduate Computer
Science students. The text goes beyond the standard coverage in operating
systems courses with key chapters on multiprocessing, networking, distributed
systems, performance and security. The text features extensive, up to the minute
case studies on the latest versions of Linux (2.6) and Microsoft Windows XP. An
abundance of charts, diagrams, illustrations and exercises (both with and
without solutions) is included.