Best Book In Operating Systems
I studied from this book last Term in 2006. William Stalling is the best in his field. He opens Subjects in all fields with a very simple and encouraging way. He is unique as he is writing in the field in other subject Computer Organization, Data commuincation and others.I read each of these books. He had prizes on some of these books as being the best books in the field. Also by the end of each chapter he have a very challenging exercises with different programming projects. I prefer him than other authors in the same field, inspite of he isnot taking the same fame as the others as most of the big universities apply their material from other authors.
The index is as follows
PART ONE: BACKGROUND
1. Computer System Overview
2. Operating System Overview
PART TWO: PROCESSES
3. Process Description and Control
4. Threads, SMP, and Microkernels
5. Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization
6. Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation
PART THREE: MEMORY
7. Memory Management
8. Virtual Memory
PART FOUR: SCHEDULING
9. Uniprocessor Scheduling
10. Multiprocessor and Real-Time Scheduling
PART FIVE: INPUT/OUTPUT AND FILES
11. I/O Management and Disk Scheduling
12. File Management
PART SIX: DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
13. Distributed Processing, Client/Server, and Clusters
14. Distributed Process Management
PART SEVEN: SECURITY
15. Computer Security
Appendix 15A Encryption
