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Avoiding the typical black box approach found in other operating system textbooks, this bestselling book explains how to build an operating system from the ground up. It removes the mystery from operating system design and consolidates the body of material into a systematic discipline. The text presents a hierarchical design paradigm that organi
List of contents
Introduction and Overview. Concurrent Execution and Operating System Services. An Overview of the Hardware and Runtime Environment. List and Queue Manipulation. Scheduling and Context Switching. More Process Management. Coordination of Concurrent Processes. Message Passing. Basic Memory Management. High-Level Memory Management and Virtual Memory. High-Level Message Passing. Interrupt Processing. Real-Time Clock Management. Device-Independent Input and Output. An Example Device Driver. DMA Devices And Drivers (Ethernet). A Minimal Internet Protocol Stack. A Remote Disk Driver. File Systems. A Remote File Mechanism. A Syntactic Namespace. System Initialization. Subsystem Initialization and Memory Marking. Exception Handling. System Configuration. An Example User Interface: The Xinu Shell. Appendices. Index.
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Comer, Douglas; Comer, Douglas
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Avoiding the typical black box approach found in other operating system textbooks, this bestselling book explains how to build an operating system from the ground up. It removes the mystery from operating system design and consolidates the body of material into a systematic discipline. The text presents a hierarchical design paradigm that organi
