Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (3rd Edition)

Description

Revised to address the latest version of MINIX (MINIX 3), this streamlined, simplified new edition remains the only operating systems text to first explain relevant principles, then demonstrate their applications using a Unix-like operating system as a detailed example. It has been especially designed for high reliability, for use in embedded systems, and for ease of teaching.

Key Features

• Accompanying CD-ROM with the latest version of MINIX and simulators for running MINIX on other systems – A small, easy-to-understand highly reliable operating sys­tem is available for study; unique to this text.
• Relevant sections of MINIX code are described in detail in most chapters – Provides problems at the end of each chapter, with separate solutions manual for the instructor.
• Simulators for running MINIX on other systems are available.
• MINIX includes networking based in TCP/IP – the full source code of the MINIX TCP/IP implementation is included on the CD-ROM.

Table of Contents

1. Chapter 1 Introduction
2. Chapter 2 Processes
3. Chapter 3 Input/Output
4. Chapter 4 Memory Management
5. Chapter 5 File Systems
6. Chapter 6 Reading List And Bibliography
7. Appendix A – Installing Minix 3
8. Appendix B – Minix 3 Source Code Listing
9. Appendix C – Index To Files

Author Biography

Andrew Stuart “Andy” Tanenbaum (born March 16, 1944) is an American computer scientist and professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

He is best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and for his computer science textbooks, regarded as standard texts in the field. He regards his teaching job as his most important work. Since 2004 he has operated Electoral-vote.com, a website dedicated to analysis of polling data in federal elections in the United States.