From the Back Cover

“The presentation is excellent. The book should be on the desk of any serious student of operating systems.”--Dr. Samuel Kohn, Thomas Edison State College

“I would give the authors very high grades for their writing style. Topics are explained in a clear and understandable manner. Presentations are well organized and they flow in logical fashion. The book provides the right depth and breadth of explanations with the appropriate amount of rigor and abstraction.” --Gojko Babic, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University

The definitive, up-to-date introduction to operating systems:
Core principles plus hands-on examples with the new MINIX 3 operating system

The world’s best-selling introductory operating systems text has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest advances in OS design and implementation. Offering an optimal balance of theory and practice, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, Third Edition remains the best resource for anyone seeking a deep understanding of how operating systems work.

This edition includes MINIX 3, more compact, more reliable, better suited for embedded applications – and, above all, even easier to teach and learn from. Using MINIX, the authors introduce virtually every core concept needed to construct a working OS: system calls, processes, IPC, scheduling, I/O, deadlocks, memory management, threads, file systems, security, and more.


NEW TO THIS EDITION

· Newly-released, significantly-improved MINIX 3 operating system on CD-ROM: giving students hands-on experience in modifying and rebuilding a contemporary operating system
· Expanded and reorganized coverage of processes and communication
· Revised and enhanced coverage of CPU scheduling, deadlocks, file system reliability, and security
· Includes more than 150 end of chapter problems

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Andrew S. Tanenbaum has an S.B. degree from M.I.T. and a Ph. D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science and Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where, for more than 30 years, he has taught operating systems, computer organization, and networking to thousands of students. Professor Tanenbaum is the winner of the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award and the ACM/SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education.

Albert S. Woodhull is Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science and Biology at the School of Natural Science, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. He also served until recently as computer system administrator for the Department of Biology in the School of Natural Science and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. He holds an S.B. degree from M.I.T. and a Ph.D. the University of Washington. Supported by a Fulbright grant, he has taught at the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua.

摘自封底

"介绍很好。这本书应该放在任何认真学习操作系统的学生的桌子上。"--Samuel Kohn博士，托马斯-爱迪生州立学院

"我对作者的写作风格给予很高的评价。主题的解释清晰易懂。演示文稿组织得很好，它们以逻辑的方式流动。该书提供了适当的深度和广度的解释，并有适当的严谨性和抽象性"。--俄亥俄州立大学计算机科学与工程系的Gojko Babic

操作系统的权威性、最新的介绍。

核心原理加上新的MINIX 3操作系统的实践案例

世界上最畅销的操作系统入门教材已经彻底更新，以反映操作系统设计和实施的最新进展。提供了理论与实践的最佳平衡，《操作系统。设计与实现》第三版仍然是寻求深入了解操作系统工作原理的人的最佳资源。

本版包括MINIX 3，更紧凑、更可靠、更适合嵌入式应用--最重要的是，更容易教和学。通过MINIX，作者介绍了构建一个工作操作系统所需的几乎所有核心概念：系统调用、进程、IPC、调度、I/O、死锁、内存管理、线程、文件系统、安全等等。

本版的新内容

- 新发布的、明显改进的MINIX 3操作系统的光盘：给学生提供修改和重建当代操作系统的实践经验

- 扩展并重新组织了进程和通信的内容

- 对CPU调度、死锁、文件系统的可靠性和安全性进行了修订和加强。

- 包括150多个章末问题

关于作者

Andrew S. Tanenbaum拥有M.I.T.的学士学位和加州大学伯克利分校的博士学位。他目前是荷兰阿姆斯特丹Vrije大学的计算机科学教授，30多年来，他在那里向成千上万的学生教授操作系统、计算机组织和网络。Tanenbaum教授是ACM Karl V. Karlstrom杰出教育家奖和ACM/SIGCSE计算机科学教育杰出贡献奖的得主。

阿尔伯特-S-伍德霍尔是马萨诸塞州阿默斯特市汉普郡学院自然科学学院的计算机科学和生物学的兼职副教授。直到最近，他还担任马萨诸塞大学自然科学和数学学院生物系的计算机系统管理员，位于马萨诸塞州阿默斯特市。他拥有麻省理工学院的理学士学位和华盛顿大学的博士学位。在富布赖特奖学金的支持下，他曾在国立工程大学和尼加拉瓜国立自治大学任教。