Operating systems (Q2761233)

``Operating Systems'' by C. Vogt is convenient for undergraduate teaching in computer science as well as for readers from other subject areas. The book is written in a mainly verbal manner. Among classical topics (e.g. the process concept, synchronisation and coordination, memory hierarchy, input/output, file system) new areas as security, basics and techniques of distributed system have been included. The content is oriented to the operating system UNIX but basically considers the general principles that are relevant for all systems and describes the relation to new operating systems like WindowsNT, Windows2000 and Linux. Each chapter contains exercises in order to extend the material; for self-control purposes the results can be found in the end of the book as well as more detailed information. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEFollowing an overview about operating systems the UNIX system is described shortly (chapter 1 and 2). Chapter 3 and 4 classically describe the process concept as well as synchronisation and communication. Chapter 5 and 6 deal with the memory hierarchy, the file system and the I/O. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn the context of distributed systems, basic principles of and differences between DCE, CORBA and XWindows are explained. Furthermore, the author gives his opinion about actual operating system research results of the 90ies, e.g. about the Mikrokernel, the Mach system approach and OSF1.