Blending up-to-date theory with state-of-the-art applications, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of operating systems, with an emphasis on internals and design issues. It helps readers develop a solid understanding of the key structures and mechanisms of operating systems, the types of trade-offs and decisions involved in OS design, and the context within which the operating system functions (hardware, other system programs, application programs, interactive users). Process Description And Control. Threads, SMP, And Microkernels. Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion And Synchronization. Concurrency: Deadlock And Starvation. Memory Management. Virtual Memory. Uniprocessor Scheduling. Multiprocessor And Real-Time Scheduling. I/O Management And Disk Scheduling. File Management. Distributed Processing, Client/Server, And Clusters. Distributed Process Management. Security. For product development personnel (Programmers, Systems Engineers, Network Designers, and others involved in the design of data communications and networking products), Product marketing personnel, and Information system and computer system personnel. </P>

William Stallings 拥有美国麻省理工学院计算机科学博士学位，现任教于澳大利亚新南威尔士大学国防学院（堪培拉）信息技术与电子工程系。他是世界知名计算机学者和畅销教材作者，已经撰写了17部著作，出版了40多本书籍，内容涉及计算机安全、计算机网络和计算机体系结构等方面，堪称计算机界的全才。他曾九次荣获美国“教材和学术专著作者协会”颁发的“年度最佳计算机科学教材”奖。