Название: Basic Principles of an Operating System: Learn the Internals and Design Principles
Автор: Dr. Priyanka Rathee
Издательство: BPB Publications
Год: 2019
Страниц: 379
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 14.5 MB

A basic guide to learn Design and Programming of operating system in depth.

An operating system is an essential component of computers, laptops, smartphones and any other devices that manages the computer hardware. This book is a complete textbook that includes theory, implementation, case studies, a lot of review questions, questions from GATE and some smart tips. Many examples and diagrams are given in the book to explain the concepts. It will help increase the readability and understand the concepts.

The book is divided into 11 chapters. It describe the basics of an operating system, how it manages the computer hardware, Application Programming interface, compiling, linking, and loading. It talks about how communication takes place between two processes, the different methods of communication, the synchronization between two processes, and modern tools of synchronization. It covers deadlock and various methods to handle deadlock.

It also describes the memory and virtual memory organization and management, file system organization and implementation, secondary storage structure, protection and security.

What will you learn:
The proposed book will be very simple to read, understand and provide sound knowledge of basic concepts. It is going to be a complete book that includes theory, implementation, case studies, a lot of review questions, questions from GATE and some smart tips.

Key Features:
Easy to read and understand
Covers the topic in-depth
Good explanation of concepts with relevant diagrams and examples
Contains a lot of review questions to understand the concepts
Clarification of concepts using case studies
The book will help to achieve a high confidence level and thus ensure high performance of the reader

Who this book is for:
BCA, BSc (IT/CS), MTech (IT/CSE), BTech (CSE/IT), MBA (IT), MCA, BBA (CAM), DOEACC, MSc (IT/CS/SE), MPhil, PGDIT, PGDBM.