Operating Systems: A Spiral Approach

by Elmasri, Ramez; Carrick, A; Levine, David

• ISBN13: 9780072449815
• ISBN10: 0072449810
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-11
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science Engineering

Summary

Elmasri, Levine, and Carrick's "spiral approach" to teaching operating systems develops student understanding of various OS components early on and helps students approach the more difficult aspects of operating systems with confidence. While operating systems have changed dramatically over the years, most OS books use a linear approach that covers each individual OS component in depth, which is difficult for students to follow and requires instructors to constantly put materials in context.Elmasri, Levine, and Carrick do things differently by following an integrative or "spiral" approach to explaining operating systems. The spiral approach alleviates the need for an instructor to "jump ahead" when explaining processes by helping students "completely" understand a simple, working, functional system as a whole in the very beginning. This is more effective pedagogically, and it inspires students to continue exploring more advanced concepts with confidence..

Table of Contents

Operating Systems Overview and Background

Getting Started

Operating System Concepts, Components, and Architectures

Building Operating Systems Incrementally: A Breadth-Oriented Spiral Approach

A Simple, Single Process Operating System

A Single User Multi-tasking Operating System

An Advanced Single User Multi-tasking Operating System

A Multiple-User Operating System - Linux

Parallel and Distributed Computing, Clusters and Grids

In Depth - Processes and Memory

Process Management: Concepts, Threads, and Scheduling

More Process Management: Inter-process Communication, Synchronization, and Deadlocks

Basic Memory Management

Advanced Memory Management

In Depth - Files and Input/Output

File Systems - Basics

File Systems - Examples and More Features

Disk Scheduling and Input/Output Management

In Depth - Networks and Distributed Processing

Introduction to Computer Networks

Protection and Security

Introduction to Distributed Systems

Case Studies

Windows Vista

Linux

The Palm OS Appendices

Overview of Computer System and Architecture Concepts

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