This book, designed for the first course on Operating Systems, aims at demystifying the subject by using the step-by-step approach of going from the very basis to advanced concepts. This book would be useful not only to the undergraduate students of computer science but also to application programmers who are interested in knowing about the internals of the operating systems.
Salient Features * Good coverage of Parallel Processing. * Coverage of Multimedia Operating Systems. * New to this Edition * Increased coverage of Operating Systems Security and Protection. * Enhanced coverage of Distributed Processing. * Detailed case studies on LINUX, WIN NT/2000.
Table of Contents * Chapter 1 History of the Operating Systems * Chapter 2 Computer Architecture * Chapter 3 Operating System-Functions and Structure * Chapter 4 Information Management * Chapter 5 Process Management * Chapter 6 Inter Process Communication * Chapter 7 Deadlocks * Chapter 8 Memory Management * Chapter 9 Operating System: Security and Protection * Chapter 10 Parallel Processing * Chapter 11 Operating Systems in Distributed Processing * Chapter 12 Windows NT/2000-A Case Study * Chapter 13 Unix: a Case Study * Chapter 14 Linux-a Case Study * Chapter 15 Multimedia Operating Systems * Index