by James Lyle Peterson, Abraham Silberschatz · Addison Wesley · tapa dura · ISBN 9780201061987
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«Operating System Concepts» is the operating systems textbook by James L. Peterson and Abraham Silberschatz, in hardback, published in 1985 by Addison-Wesley.
Textbook explaining the fundamental concepts of operating systems: process, memory and file management. It traces the evolution of real systems such as OS/360, MULTICS, UNIX, VMS and CP/M, showing how each generation solved the problems of the previous one and how operating systems drove the evolution of hardware.
Second edition in English, with 625 pages; includes index and bibliography (pages 565-600).
Aimed at computer science students and professionals seeking a solid and readable introduction to operating systems.
Avi Silberschatz is an Israeli computer scientist and researcher. He is known for having authored many influential texts in computer science. He finished high school at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa and graduated in 1976 with a Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. His research interests include database systems, operating systems, storage systems, and network management.
