Operating System Concepts (7th Edition) | 
| Authors: Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 19987
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 7
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 944
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 6.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 0471694665
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.43
EAN: 9780471694663
ASIN: 0471694665
Publication Date: December 14, 2004
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Product Description
Another defining moment in the evolution of operating systems
Small footprint operating systems, such as those driving the handheld devices that the baby dinosaurs are using on the cover, are just one of the cutting-edge applications you'll find in Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne's Operating System Concepts, Seventh Edition.
By staying current, remaining relevant, and adapting to emerging course needs, this market-leading text has continued to define the operating systems course. This Seventh Edition not only presents the latest and most relevant systems, it also digs deeper to uncover those fundamental concepts that have remained constant throughout the evolution of today's operation systems. With this strong conceptual foundation in place, students can more easily understand the details related to specific systems.
New Adaptations
* Increased coverage of user perspective in Chapter 1.
* Increased coverage of OS design throughout.
* A new chapter on real-time and embedded systems (Chapter 19).
* A new chapter on multimedia (Chapter 20).
* Additional coverage of security and protection.
* Additional coverage of distributed programming.
* New exercises at the end of each chapter.
* New programming exercises and projects at the end of each chapter.
* New student-focused pedagogy and a new two-color design to enhance the learning process.
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Good OS txt January 9, 2009
Very helpful in understanding basic concepts. Examples is what makes this text stand out, with plenty of examples, and a good website to view source code
Great OS concepts and design reference December 30, 2008
This was the text used in the Operating Systems course when I was in undergrad at Wisconsin. It was a useful reference for my projects including a CPU scheduler, file system implementation, caching algorithms, etc. It's more conceptual, which I like--it's more important to truely understand the concepts and I think that once you have that, the implementation is often the easy part.
This book was also instrumental in my understanding of synchronization and multi-threaded programming.
 Ho hum yawn October 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Perhaps it is my short attention span or my lack of interest in this book, but I felt the information in this book was puffed up with alot of technical jargon and not much consistency.
Using multi-threading classes was a good idea, but how it was explained was boring and shuffled throughout the book.
Fairly good delivery time September 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought a used book that is still in good shape. The delivery time was also fair.
OS Time September 7, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Please, it's a book on operating systems with a flippin dinosaur on the cover. Actually not a bad book, though in reality, I did feel like a retard reading something with a dinosaur theme throughout the book. Then again, I feel like a retard most days.
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