TY - BOOK AU - Stallings, William TI - Operating systems : : Internals and design principles SN - 981-4096-15-6 AV - 005.43 St16 PY - 2001/// CY - Singapore PB - Pearson Education KW - Operating systems KW - Computers N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -