PART ONE OVERVIEW
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Operating-System Structures
PART TWO PROCESS MANAGEMENT
Chapter 3 Processes
Chapter 4 Threads
Chapter 5 Process Synchronization
Chapter 6 CPU Scheduling
Chapter 7 Deadlocks
PART THREE MEMORY MANAGEMENT
Chapter 8 Main Memory
Chapter 9 Virtual Memory
PART FOUR STORAGE MANAGEMENT
Chapter 10 Mass-Storage Structure
Chapter 11 File-System Interface
Chapter 12: File-System Implementation
Chapter 13 I/O Systems
PART FIVE PROTECTION AND SECURITY
Chapter 14 Protection
Chapter 15 Security
PART SIX ADVANCED TOPICS
Chapter 16 Virtual Machines
Chapter 17 Distributed Systems
PART SEVEN CASE STUDIES
Chapter 18 The Linux System
Chapter 19 Windows 7
Chapter 20 Influential Operating Systems
PART EIGHT APPENDICES
APPENDIX A BSD UNIX
APPENDIX B The Mach System
Abraham Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor
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. His research interests include
database systems, operating systems, storage systems, and network
management.
Professor Silberschatz is a Fellow of the Association of Computing
Machinery (ACM), a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a member of the Connecticut
Academy of Science and Engineering. 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 NetInventory Project
(2004).
Professor Silberschatz' writings have appeared in numerous ACM and
IEEE publications and other professional conferences and journals.
He is a coauthor of the textbook Database System Concepts. He has
also written Op-Ed articles for the New York Times, the Boston
Globe, and the Hartford Courant, among others.
Peter Baer Galvin is the chief solutions architect for Pluribus Networks (www.pluribusnetworks.com). Previously he was the CTO for the systems integrator Corporate Technologies, and a lecturer at Boston University. He has also been a columnist for;login:, SunWorld, and SysAdmin magazines, and has written articles for Byte and other magazines. Mr. Galvin blogs for anewdomain.net and byte.com. As a consultant and trainer, he has given talks and tutorials on security and system administration worldwide.
Greg Gagne is chair of the Computer Science department at Westminster College in Salt Lake City where he has been teaching since 1990. In addition to teaching operating systems, he also teaches computer networks, parallel programming, and software engineering. He has made presentations at educational conferences and also provides workshops to industry professionals. Professor Gagne was the recipient of the Shaw Faculty Publication Prize in 2007.
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