Wiley Publishers Since 1807   Shopping Cart  Shopping Cart  My Account  Help  Contact Us  
Home Technology Solutions Who's My Rep About Wiley
 
Product Search
Home > Engineering and Computer Science > Computer Science > Operating Systems
Operating System Concepts, 8th Edition
Operating System Concepts, 8th Edition
Abraham Silberschatz, Yale University
Peter Baer Galvin, Corporate Technologies
Greg Gagne, Westminster College
ISBN: 978-0-470-12872-5
©2009
992 pages
INSTRUCTORS
STUDENTS
TITLE INFORMATION
Description  |  Author Info  |  Table of Contents  |  Detailed Contents  |  New to This Edition  |  Hallmark Features  |  Supplements
New to This Edition
  • over 15 new programming exercises that emphasize processes, threads, shared memory, process synchronization, and networking
  • added coverage of virtual machine scheduling and multi-threaded, multi-core architectures, as well as livelock issues
  • significantly updated coverage of virtual machines, as well as multi-core CPUS, the GRUB boot loader, and operating system debugging
  • added discussion of mutual exclusion locks, priority inversion
  • additional coverage of iSCSI, volumes, ZFS pools,  PCIX PCI Express, and Hyper-Transport

 

Printer-ready version of this page E-mail a friend about this product