Operating System Principles - UNIX Edition

Author: Li Linying
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This book is a companion to "Operating System Principles - DOS Edition" (Second Edition). It focuses on principles, with typical examples set in the UNIX environment, condensing the content related to MS-DOS into the later chapters. It covers the fundamental concepts, principles, and implementation techniques of operating systems. The book consists of 9 chapters: Introduction to Operating Systems; UNIX System Composition and Functional Services; Memory Management; Process Management; Device Management; File Management; Job Management; UNIX System Network Application Interface; Implementation of Microcomputer Operating System Functions. Each chapter combines theory with practical examples, introducing the kernel, network, and Shell (command interpreter) of the UNIX operating system, enabling readers to gain a comprehensive understanding of both principles and UNIX. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM. Additionally, "Operating System Principles - UNIX Edition: Exercises and Experiment Guidance" is also available, with its own accompanying CD-ROM. The target audience for this book is undergraduate students majoring in computer science. The accompanying CD-ROM is a multimedia teaching CD-ROM for operating systems, offering various versions of electronic teaching plans (72 hours and 54 hours), web-based teaching plans, an audio-visual learning system, an OS_Web animation collection, and a personal homepage-style teaching resource folder (providing teaching resources adaptable to the new teaching methods of the information age). There is also an extra-curricular reading folder containing some student works using Flash to study OS. The content is rich, engaging, and can be selected and combined by teachers. This book is suitable for a wide range of audiences, including undergraduate, junior college, adult education, vocational college, and various teaching needs. For a broad audience of science and technology professionals engaged in microcomputer application development, it serves as a highly practical and theoretical reference book, also suitable for self-study.