Operating System Concepts Essentials, Binder Ready Version [Loose-leaf]

By staying current, remaining relevant, and adapting to emergingcourse needs, Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz,Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne has defined the operating systemscourse through nine editions. This second edition of the Essentialsversion is based on the recent ninth edition of the originaltext. 

Operating System Concepts Essentials comprises a subset ofchapters of the ninth edition for professors who want a shortertext and do not cover all the topics in the ninthedition.          

The new second edition of Essentials will be available as anebook at a very attractive price for students.  The ebook willhave live links for the bibliography, cross-references betweensections and chapters where appropriate, and new chapter reviewquestions.  A two-color printed version is alsoavailable. 

Abraham Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, USA. He was the chair of the Computer Science department at Yale from 2005 to 2011. Prior to coming to Yale in 2003, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs. He previously held an endowed professorship at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught until 1993. His research interests include database systems, operating systems, storage systems, and network management.