Resumen
The widely anticipated revision of this worldwide best-seller incorporates the latest developments in operating systems (OS)technologies. The Third Edition includes up-to-date materials on relevant OS such as Linux, Windows, and embedded real-time and multimedia systems. Tanenbaum also provides information on current research based on his experience as an operating systems researcher.
Student Resources Include:
- Online Exercises - Provide hands-on experience with building as well as analyzing the performance of OS. In particular, these exercises have been designed to provide experience with analyzing the resource consumptions in Windows and Linux.
- Simulation Exercises - Designed to provide experience with building some key components of an OS, including process scheduling, main memory allocation, paging algorithms and virtual memory, and file systems.
- Lab Experiments
New to this edition:
- New and updated coverage of multimedia operating systems, multiprocessors, virtual machines, and antivirus software.
- Chapter that covers internal workings of Windows Vista (Ch. 11) - Unique coverage even for current textbooks.
Content changes (new material or deletions):
- Updates every chapter with new material and references
- Provides an introduction to C for non-C programmers
- New material on virtualization, virtual machines, and VMware
- New material on operating system security and malware
- New chapters on Linux (Ch. 10), Windows Vista (Ch. 11), Symbian OS (Ch. 12)
- New end-of-chapter exercises and programming exercises for students
- Hundreds of new references.
- Reordered chapters - Places key material that students must learn earlier at an earlier point in the book.
- About 20% revised problems.
- Added programming exercises.
- Student tools and lab experiments on the text’s website - Students can download the tools and run the experiments to gain deeper knowledge of the subject.
