Computer system performance /
Herbert Hellerman and Thomas F. Conroy
- New York : McGraw Hill Education, c1975
- xi, 373 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Chapter 1. The nature of computer-performance evaluation -- Chapter 2. Principles of statistics -- Chapter 3. Topics in discrete mathematics and applications -- Chapter 4. Job processing models: informal and simulation viewpoints -- Chapter 5. Queuing theory -- Chapter 6. Single-component and single-job performance -- Chapter 7. Operating systems: evolution and fundamentals -- Chapter 8. The IBM OS/3060 operating systems -- Chapter 9. Timesharing systems -- Chapter 10. Virtual-storage principles -- Chapter 11. Virtual storage: system-design context.
This book is concerned primarily with performance as opposed to function. The reader is assumed already to be familiar with functional aspects of machine organization and programming.