Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective - Hardcover

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Gary J. Nutt is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado. He has also worked as researcher at Xerox PARC and Bell Labs, and as a corporate Vice President and manager of the Boulder office of Interactive Systems. His research interests are in operating systems, distributed systems, performance, and collaboration technology. He teaches in these areas as well as object-oriented software and networks.

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Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective strikes a balance between principles and practice, presenting core operating system concepts illustrated with real-world examples that provide a practical perspective on the material. This book features a complete discussion of operating system principles, supplemented with code, algorithms, implementation issues, and lab exercises to provide a comprehensive understanding of contemporary operating system practice.

Features

• Discusses the basic principles behind the design of all operating systems
• In the Hangar examples show how the principles are applied in practice using Linux/UNIX and the Windows NT operating systems
• Performance Tuning discussions explain how system designers have exploited the basic principles to achieve higher performance
• Lab Exercises allow students to gain hands-on experience with the details of how to use Linux/UNIX