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Modern operating systems

This long-awaited revision of the global bestseller includes the latest developments in operating system technology.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum is a professor of Computer Science at the Vrije University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where he primarily focuses on advanced research in systems and security issues.

The scientific editing of the Greek edition was undertaken by Dimitris Gizopoulos, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Piraeus.

Among other things, the book covers the following:

- Introductory elements (what is an operating system, general information about computer hardware, etc.)

- Processes and threads (the process model, process implementation, use of threads, hybrid implementations, etc.)

- Memory management (address spaces, virtual memory, page replacement algorithm, etc.)

- File systems (directories, implementation, management, and optimization, etc.)

- Input/Output (principles of Input/Output hardware, software levels, etc.)

- Deadlocks (resources, the ostrich algorithm, etc.)

- Multimedia operating systems (multimedia files, video and audio compression, etc.)

- Multiprocessor systems (multiprocessors, multi-computers, virtualization, etc.)

- Security (basic principles of cryptography, protection mechanisms, etc.)

- Case study: Linux (the history of Unix and Linux, processes in Linux, etc.)

- Case study: Windows Vista (the history of Windows Vista, programming, system structure, etc.)

- Case study: The Symbian operating system (the history of Symbian, processes and threads, memory management, etc.)

- Operating system design (the nature of the design problem, implementation, performance, etc.)