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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Operating systems</title>
    <subTitle>Internals and design principles</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Stallings, William</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Pearson Education</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2001</dateIssued>
    <edition>4th</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xviii, 779 p.:</extent>
    <extent>24 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Blending theory with broad coverage of fundamentals, this text offers a treatment of operating systems, with an emphasis on internals and design issues. The book provides a discussion of the fundamentals of operating system design and relates these principles to contemporary design issues.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>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 -- File management -- Part six: Distributed systems. Distributed processing, client/server, and clusters -- Distributed process management -- Part seven: Security. Computer security.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">William Stallings.</note>
  <note>English</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Operating systems</topic>
    <topic>Computers</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">005.43 St16</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">981-4096-15-6</identifier>
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