Operating Systems (Grassroots)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (530 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0333802888 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author JOHN O'GORMAN is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science and Information Systems department at University of Limerick.
JOHN O'GORMAN is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science and Information Systems department at University of Limerick.
It covers the traditional material on processes, but with more emphasis than usual on threads and considers interactions between concurrent threads, including semaphores, message queues, and monitors. It goes into concurrency in some detail. The books address core subjects, and provide the student with enough resources and support for a one semester course. The "Grassroots" series has been designed to neet the students needs. Memory management is covered, including segmentation and paging. Finally, the work looks briefly at fault handling and security issues, in both stand alone and distributed systems.. Input/Output is dealt with over two chapters: one concentrates on the high level, device independent aspects, while the other looks at low level aspects such as the interface with hardware, control
"only works with a teacher." according to Fabrice. do not buy this book if you want to learn on your own about operating systems. it sucks at it. one needs a teacher to feel the gaps.stay away from this book unless you have to buy it for your class.