Stallings, William <br/><br/>
Operating systems:  internals and design principles. / 
William Stallings 
 - 6th ed. 
 - New Jersey:  Pearson,  2009. 
 - xviii, 743p.:  ills  18cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Contents: Background: Computer system overview -- Operating system overview -- Process: Process description and control -- Threads, SMP and Microkernels -- Concurrency: Mutual exclusion and synchronization -- Concurrency: Deadlock and starvation -- Three memory: Memory management -- Virtual memory -- Scheduling: Uniprocessor scheduling -- Multiprocessor and real time scheduling -- Five input/output and files: Management and disk scheduling -- File management -- Embedded systems: Embedded operating systems -- Security: Computer security threats -- Computer security techniques -- Distributed systems: Distributed processing, client/ server and clusters -- Appendices: Appendix A: topics in concurrency -- Appendix B: Object- oriented design -- Appendix C: Programming and operating system projects. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780136033370 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Operating systems
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA76.76  / .O63S733