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Operating System Design : The Xinu Approach / Douglas Comer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Comer, Douglas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Xinu.
- Operating systems (Computers).
- System design.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (574 pages)
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Taylor and Francis 2025
- Summary:
- The third edition of this book expands on the text to include new chapters on a pipe mechanism, multicore operating systems, and considerations of operating systems being used in unexpected ways. It simplifies learning about operating systems by allowing a reader to understand one level at a time without needing forward references.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction And Overview Chapter 2: Concurrent Execution And Operating System Services Chapter 3: An Overview Of The Hardware And Runtime Environment Chapter 4: List And Queue Manipulation Chapter 5: Scheduling And Context Switching Chapter 6: More Process Management Chapter 7: Coordination Of Concurrent Processes Chapter 8: Message Passing Chapter 9: Basic Memory Management Chapter 10: High-level Memory Management and Virtual Memory Chapter 11: High-level Message Passing Chapter 12: Interrupt Processing Chapter 13: Real-time Clock Management Chapter 14: Device-independent Input And Output Chapter 15: An Example Device Driver Chapter 16: DMA Devices And Drivers (Ethernet) Chapter 17: A Minimal Internet Protocol Stack Chapter 18: A Remote Disk Driver Chapter 19: File Systems Chapter 20: A Remote File System Chapter 21: A Syntactic Namespace Chapter 22: System Initialization Chapter 23: Subsystem Initialization And Memory Marking Chapter 24: Exception Handling Chapter 25: System Configuration Chapter 26: A Pipe Mechanism Chapter 27: An Example User Interface: The Xinu Shell Chapter 28: Multicore Systems Chapter 29: Operating Systems Everywhere
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781040345764
- 104034576X
- 9781040345733
- 1040345735
- 9781003597667
- 1003597661
- OCLC:
- 1514633917
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000215015
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