Public Operating System (English Version)

Author: Tanenbaum
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: This is a classic original book. This book comprehensively and thoroughly elaborates on distributed operating systems, covering all aspects of distributed operating systems, and focuses on introducing the fundamental principles, algorithms, and implementation techniques for designing and constructing distributed operating systems. The first half of the book provides a relatively comprehensive introduction to the concepts and algorithms related to communication, synchronization, processes, file systems, and memory management in distributed system environments. The second half details four examples of distributed systems: Amoeba, Mach, Chorus, and OSF/DCE, introducing their design philosophies and implementation techniques. The book's feature is the close integration of theory and practice, emphasizing both the systematicity and advanced nature of fundamental knowledge while also addressing practical aspects. Therefore, the book is suitable for a wide range of audiences, serving as a teaching text for undergraduate and graduate courses on distributed operating systems, as well as a reference for researchers and engineering technicians engaged in distributed computing research and engineering applications.
Professor Tanenbaum, the author of this book, is an internationally renowned expert in computer science and a master in the fields of computer operating systems, distributed operating systems, and computer networks. This book is one of his three classic operating system titles, the other two being Modern Operating Systems and Operating Systems: Design and Implementation. These three textbooks are highly respected in the field of computer systems and are widely adopted by universities both domestically and internationally. The book comprehensively and thoroughly elaborates on distributed operating systems, covering all aspects of distributed operating systems, and focuses on introducing the fundamental principles, algorithms, and implementation techniques for designing and constructing distributed operating systems. The first half of the book provides a relatively comprehensive introduction to four examples of distributed systems: Amoeba, Mach, Chorus, and OSF/DCE, introducing their design philosophies and implementation techniques. The book's feature is the close integration of theory and practice, emphasizing both the systematicity and advanced nature of fundamental knowledge while also addressing practical aspects. Therefore, the book is suitable for a wide range of audiences, serving as a teaching text for undergraduate and graduate courses on distributed operating systems, as well as a reference for researchers and engineering technicians engaged in distributed computing research and engineering applications.