Operating Systems: A Spiral Approach

Levine, David,Carrick, A,Elmasri, Ramez

ISBN 10: 0072449810 / ISBN 13: 9780072449815

Editore: McGraw-Hill Education, 2009

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• Titolo: Operating Systems: A Spiral Approach
• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0072449810
• ISBN 13: 9780072449815
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Elmasri, Levine, and Carrick's "spiral approach" to teaching operating systems develops student understanding of various OS components early on and helps students approach the more difficult aspects of operating systems with confidence. While operating systems have changed dramatically over the years, most OS books use a linear approach that covers each individual OS component in depth, which is difficult for students to follow and requires instructors to constantly put materials in context.

Elmasri, Levine, and Carrick do things differently by following an integrative or "spiral" approach to explaining operating systems. The spiral approach alleviates the need for an instructor to "jump ahead" when explaining processes by helping students "completely" understand a simple, working, functional system as a whole in the very beginning. This is more effective pedagogically, and it inspires students to continue exploring more advanced concepts with confidence.

Contenuti

PART 1: Operating Systems Overview and Background

1 Getting Started

2 Operating System Concepts, Components, and Architectures

PART 2: Building Operating Systems Incrementally: A Breadth-Oriented Spiral Approach

3 A Simple, Single-Process Operating System

4 A Single-User Multitasking Operating System

5 A Single-User Multitasking/Multithreading Operating System

6 A Multiple-User Operating System

7 Parallel and Distributed Computing, Clusters, and Grids

PART 3: CPU and Memory Management

8 Process Management: Concepts, Threads, and Scheduling

9 More Process Management: Interprocess Communication, Synchronization, and Deadlocks

10 Basic Memory Management

11 Advanced Memory Management

PART 4: A Depth-Oriented Presentation of OS Concepts: Files Systems and Input/Output

12 File Systems - Basics

13 File Systems - Examples and More Features

14 Disk Scheduling and Input/Output Management

PART 5: Networks, Distributed Systems, and Security

15 Introduction to Computer Networks

16 Protection and Security

17 Distributed Operating Systems

PART 6: Case Studies

18 Windows NT™ through Vista™

19 Linux: A Case Study

20 Palm OS: A Class Case Study

Appendices

Appendix A: Overview of Computer System and Architecture Concepts