Operating System Concepts 8th Edition By Abraham Silberschatz

operating system concepts 8th edition by abraham silberschatz pdf

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• Chapter 1, Introduction, has been expanded to include multicore CPUs, clustered computers, and open-source operating systems. 
• Chapter 2, System Structures, provides significantly updated coverage of virtual machines, as well as multicore CPUs, the GRUB boot loader, and operating-system debugging. 
• Chapter 3, Process Concept, provides new coverage of pipes as a form of interprocess communication. 
• Chapter 4, Multithreaded Programming, adds new coverage of programming for multicore systems.
•  Chapter 5, Process Scheduling, adds coverage of virtual machine scheduling and multithreaded, multicore architectures. 
• Chapter 6, Synchronization, adds a discussion of mutual exclusion locks, priority inversion, and transactional memory. 
• Chapter 8, Memory-Management Strategies, includes discussion of NUMA. xii 
• Chapter 9, Virtual-Memory Management, updates the Solaris example to include Solaris 10 memory managernent. 
• Chapter 10, File System, is updated with current technologies and capacities. 
• Chapter 11, Implementing File Systems, includes a full description of Sun's ZFS file system and expands the coverage of volumes and directories.
•  Chapter 12, Secondary-Storage Structure, adds coverage of iSCSI, volumes, and ZFS pools. 
• Chapter 13, I/0 Systems, adds coverage of PCIX PCI Express, and HyperTransport. 
•  Chapter 16, Distributed Operating Systems, adds coverage of 802.11 wireless networks. 
• Chapter 21, The LimiX System, has been updated to cover the latest version of the LimiX kernel. 
• Chapter 23, Influential Operating Systems, increases coverage of very early computers as well as TOPS-20, CP/M, MS-DOS, Windows, and the original Mac OS.