Computer Science

Appropriate for introductory courses on computer operating systems.

This book offers a unique and carefully integrated combination of principles and practice. While the usual principles are covered in detail, the book also describes a small, but real UNIX-like operating system: MINIX. It shows how it works and illustrates the principles behind it. By using MINIX, students learn principles and then can apply them in hands-on system design projects.

• Still the only operating systems textbook that first explains the relevant principles, then shows how they apply to real systems by using a Unix-like operating system as a detailed example.

• Relevant sections of MINIX code are described in detail in most chapters. Provides problems at the end of each chapter, with separate solutions manual for the instructor.

• The principles material has been updated to reflect new developments in the field.

• The MINIX system has been updated to run on 386, 486, and standard Pentium-based machines, and is based on the international POSIX standard.

• Simulators for running MINIX on other systems are now available.

• A CD-ROM included in each book contains all the MINIX source codes and a full-listing, as well as the simulators.

• MINIX has been extended to include networking based in TCP/IP. The full source code of the MINIX TCP/IP implementation is included on the CD-ROM.

• NEW—The principles material has been updated to reflect new developments in the field.
• NEW—The MINIX system has been updated to run on 386, 486, and standard Pentium-based machines, and is based on the international POSIX standard.
• NEW—Simulators for running MINIX on other systems are now available.
• NEW—A CD-ROM included in each book contains all the MINIX source codes and a full-listing, as well as the simulators.
• NEW—MINIX has been extended to include networking based in TCP/IP. The full source code of the MINIX TCP/IP implementation is included on the CD-ROM.

I. INTRODUCTION.

II. PROCESSES.

III. INPUT/OUTPUT.

IV. MEMORY MANAGEMENT.

V. FILE SYSTEMS.

Operating Systems (OS) (Computer Science)
Operating Systems--Advanced [IMPLEMENTATION] (Computer Science)

For introductory courses on computer operating systems.

 

Revised to address the latest version of MINIX (MINIX 3), this streamlined, simplified new edition remains the only operating systems text to first explain relevant principles, then demonstrate their applications using a Unix-like operating system as a detailed example. It has been especially designed for high reliability, for use in embedded systems, and for ease of teaching.
• Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 3/E
  Tanenbaum & Woodhull
  © 2006 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 1080 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131429388 | ISBN-13: 9780131429383
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum has a B.S. Degree from M.I.T. and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he heads the Computer Systems Group. He is also Dean of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, an interuniversity graduate school doing research on advanced parallel, distributed, and imaging systems. Nevertheless, he is trying very hard to avoid turning into a bureaucrat.

In the past, he has done research on compilers, operating systems, networking, and local-area distributed systems. His current research focuses primarily on the design of wide-area distributed systems that scale to a billion users. These research projects have led to five books and over 85 referred papers in journals and conference proceedings.

Prof. Tanenbaum has also produced a considerable volume of software. He was the principal architect of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit, a widely-used toolkit for writing portable compilers, as well as of MINIX, a small UNIX clone intended for use in student programming labs. Together with his Ph.D. students and programmers, he helped design the Amoeba distributed operating system, a high-performance microkernel-based distributed operating system. The MINIX and Amoeba systems are now available for free via the Internet..

Prof. Tanenbaum is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, winner of the 1994 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and winner of the 1997 ACM/SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education. He is also listed in Who’s Who in the World.

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• Companion Website - Tanenbaum, 2/E
  Tanenbaum
  © 1997 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130137472 | ISBN-13: 9780130137470
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