Anderson, Thomas <br/><br/>
Operating systems :  principles and practice / 
Thomas Anderson and Michael Dahlin 
 - SECOND EDITION 
 - [West Lake Hills, TX] :  Recursive Books Ltd.,  c2014 
 - xvi, 669 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>1. Introduction -- Part I Kernels and processes -- 2. The Kernel abstraction -- 3. The Programming interface -- Part II Concurrency -- 4. Concurrency and threads -- 5. Synchronizing access to shared objects -- 6. Multi-object synchronization -- 7. Scheduling -- Part II Memory management -- 9. Caching and virtual memory -- 10. Advanced memory management -- Part IV Persistent storage -- 11. File systems : introduction and overview -- 12. Storage devices -- 13. Files and directories -- 14. Reliable storage 
<br/><br/> Part of the excitement is that the core ideas in a modern operating system - protection, concurrency, virtualization, resource allocation and reliable storage - have become widely applied throughout computer science not just operating system kernel. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780985673529 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>OPERATING SYSTEMS (COMPUTERS)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA 76.76.O63 .A53 2014