Design and Implementation of the MTX Operating System

• Main Author: Wang, K. C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Operating systems (Computers).; Computer Science.; Operating Systems.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.

This course-tested textbook describes the design and implementation of operating systems, and applies it to the MTX operating system, a Unix-like system designed for Intel x86 based PCs. Written in an evolutional style, theoretical and practical aspects of operating systems are presented as the desi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Foundations and Background
• Booting Operating Systems
• A Simple Operating System Kernel
• User Mode and System Calls
• Process Synchronization
• Memory Management
• Interrupt Processing and Process Scheduling
• Signals and Signal Processing
• Device Drivers
• File System
• Block Device I/O and Buffer Management
• User Interface
• MTX in 32-bit Protected Mode
• Symmetric Multiprocessing MTX
• Hybrid Operating Systems.