This text covers concepts, structure, and mechanisms of operating systems. Stallings presents the nature and characteristics of modern-day operating systems clearly and completely.

PREFACE
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

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