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Operating Systems: Incorporating UNIX and Windows, 4th Edition

Colin Ritchie

  • Copyright 2003
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Operating Systems: Incorporating UNIX and Windows 4th Edition by Colin Ritchie
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Overview

This new and fully updated edition provides the practical course text to the Operating Systems required by the majority of degree and HND courses in Computing. It uses as a basis the familiar operating systems of UNIX, MSDOS and Windows.

Colin Ritchie provides a clear introduction of all the terminology and concepts involved, and enables the reader to gain a thorough knowledge of the subject by blending technical discussion with real-practice issues, supported by practical exercises.

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Colin Ritchie

Table of Contents

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Preface
1 Background
2 Basics
3 User Interface
4 Process Management
5 Memory management 1
6 Memory management 2
7 Memory management 3
8 Input-Output
9 File management 1
10 File Management 2
11 Concurrent processes 1
12 Concurrent processes 2
13 Networks and distributed systems
14 Security
Appendix A - Introduction to the UNIX Shell
Appendix B - Summary of MS-DOS commands
Answers to review questions
Answers to selected test questions
Web references
Bibliography
Index

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  • ISBN-10: 0826464165
  • ISBN-13: 9780826464163
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