Operating System Principles - UNIX Edition (with CD-ROM)

Author: Li Linying, He Minwei
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
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 to the last chapter. It covers the basic 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 principles with the corresponding introduction of the UNIX operating system's kernel, network, and Shell (command interpreter), enabling readers to learn principles and understand UNIX more comprehensively. This book comes with a companion CD-ROM. Additionally, it is accompanied by the publication of "Exercise and Laboratory Guide for Operating System Principles - UNIX Edition," which also includes a companion CD-ROM. The target readers of this book are undergraduate students of computer science. The companion CD-ROM is a multimedia teaching CD-ROM for operating systems, featuring various versions of electronic teaching plans (72 hours and 54 hours), web-based teaching plans, audio-visual system, 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), as well as an extra-curricular reading folder (which includes some student works using Flash to study OS). The content is rich, lively, and engaging, offering teachers flexibility in selection and combination. This book is suitable for a wide range of audiences, serving as a training textbook for undergraduate, junior college, adult education, vocational college, and various teaching needs. For a broad group of science and technology professionals engaged in microcomputer application development, it is a highly practical and theoretical reference book, also suitable for self-study.