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  title info:
    title: Introduction to Operating System Design and Implementation
    sub title: The OSP 2 Approach
  name:
    name part: Kifer, Michael.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Smolka, Scott A.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 172 p. online resource.
  abstract: Understanding the main principles and algorithms underlying a modern operating system is essential in undergraduate computer science. The complexity of this subject, however, means that mastering it requires significant practical experience. This unique book accomplishes just that: it teaches introductory subjects in OS design and implementation through hands-on engagement with OSP 2, the next generation of the highly popular OSP courseware. This book exposes students to many essential features of operating systems while at the same time isolating them from low-level, machine-dependent concerns. With its accompanying software, the book contains enough projects for up to three semesters. Even one semester's study, however, suffices to cover page-replacement strategies in virtual memory management, CPU scheduling strategies, disk seek-time optimization and other issues in operating system design. Features include: • Provides an opportunity to practice OS design and implementation skills in a realistic, flexible, and easy-to-use systems programming environment that promotes "active learning" and reinforces lecture material. • OSP 2 is written in Java, so that students learn an object-oriented approach to OS design and implementation. • Contains many pedagogical tools: chapter goals, internet support for students and instructors; OSP 2 courseware and an instructors' manual, which includes helpful tips for course instructors and sample assignments, is available at www.springer.com/978-1-84628-842-5. • Each chapter includes self-contained explanations of the OS concepts underlying the student project for that chapter. Written for undergraduates in a first operating systems course, this text provides essential foundations through the user-friendly, highly flexible OSP 2 courseware environment.
  table of contents: Organization of OSP 2 -- Putting it All Together: An Example Session with OSP 2 -- Tasks: Management of Tasks (a.k.a. Processes) -- Threads: Management and Scheduling of Threads -- Memory: Virtual Memory Management -- Devices: Scheduling of Disk Requests -- FileSys: The File System -- Ports: Interprocess Communication -- Resources: Resource Management.
  note: by Michael Kifer, Scott A. Smolka.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Operating systems (Computers)
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Operating Systems
  classification: QA76.76.O63
  classification: 005.43
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
  identifier: 9781846288432
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-843-6
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20141031171700.0
    record identifier: 978-1-84628-843-2