Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles [Hardcover]

William Stallings (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0138874077 | ISBN-13: 978-0138874070 | Publication Date: December 23, 1997 | Edition: 3

Blending up-to-date theory with modern applications, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of operating systems with an emphasis on internals and design issues. The title provides a solid understanding of the key mechanisms of operating systems and types of design tradeoffs and decisions. .

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Blending up-to-date theory with modern applications, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of operating systems with an emphasis on internals and design issues. The use of Windows NT, UNIX SVR4, and Solaris 2.x as running case studies through the book motivates the material and enhances understanding. Expanded treatment of multithreading and object-oriented design, together with new coverage of microkernels, SMP, and clusters. Provides a solid understanding of the key mechanisms of operating systems and the types of design trade-offs and decisions. A broad and unified treatment of distributed operating systems thoroughly covers this area of increasing importance, including process and thread migration, distributed file systems, mutual exclusion and deadlock, and clusters.

About the Author

William Stallings has made a unique contribution to understanding the broad sweep of technical developments in computer networking and computer architecture. He has authored 17 titles, and counting revised editions, a total of 41 books on various aspects of these subjects. In over 20 years in the field, he has been a technical contributor, technical manager, and an executive with several high-technology firms. Currently he is an independent consultant whose clients have included computer and networking manufacturers and customers, software development firms, and leading-edge government research institutions. He has received the award for the best Computer Science textbook of the year seven times from the Text and Academic Authors Association. Bill has designed and implemented both TCP/IP-based and OSI-based protocol suites on a variety of computers and operating systems, ranging from microcomputers to mainframes. As a consultant, he has advised government agencies, computer and software vendors, and major users on the design, selection, and use of networking software and products. As evidence of his commitment to providing a broad range of support to students, Bill created and maintains the Computer Science Student Resource Site at WilliamStallings.com/StudentSupport.html. This site provides documents and links on a variety of subjects of general interest to computer science students (and professionals). He is a member of the editorial board of Cryptologia, a scholarly journal devoted to all aspects of cryptology. He is a frequent lecturer and author of numerous technical papers. His books include Data and Computer Communications, Ninth Edition (Prentice Hall, 2011), which has become the standard in the field. Dr. Stallings holds a PhD from M.I.T. in Computer Science and a B.S. from Notre Dame in electrical engineering. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 781 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition (December 23, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0138874077
• ISBN-13: 978-0138874070
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,263,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good overview on operating systems, July 12, 2000

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"codedaemon" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles (Hardcover)

This book on operating systems compares a few operating systems, and Windows NT is taken as model. It does not go too much in depth technically, so it is easy to read and understand. The topic of memory management, virtual memory, and scheduling is also covered in this book; topics not easily found elsewhere all in one book.

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book for both beginners and gurus, November 24, 1999

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Mudashiru Busari (University of Saskatchewan, Canada.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles (Hardcover)

I have not seen the like of this book. It was used as the text for an operating system course I took last winter. It covers all you need to know about operating system concepts. The numerous examples included couldn't have been explained in any better way. The approach from the first page to the last page makes you to always want to read more. It was so written in an interesting manner that you can never read a chapter in half. The references are very informative and provide links to other sources of valuable information. The book includes a good comparison of certain concepts in Windows and Unix Operating systems. The questions at the end of each chapter were tough though, with little or no hints, but nonetheless I will greatly recommend it for anybody taking any class in operating systems.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best book on operating systems I've ever read, November 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles (Hardcover)

This book explains all aspects of operating system design with examples from NT and Unix. You don't start coding you own OS after reading this, but you get a better understanding of the problems in OS design and you probably become a better programmer.