Introduction to Operating System Design and Implementation: The OSP 2 Approach (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)

About this book

OSP 2 is both an implementation of a modern operating system and a flexible environment for generating implementation projects appropriate for an introductory course in operating system design. This book is an introduction to the design and implementation of operating systems using OSP 2 the next generation of the highly popular OSP courseware for undergraduate operating system courses. Topics and Features: Process and thread management; Memory Resource and I/0 device management; Interprocess communication; Gives opportunity to practice these skills in a realistic operating systems programming environment. This book contains enough projects for up to 3 semesters exposing students to many essential features of operating systems while at the same time isolating them from low-level machine-dependent concerns. Thus even in 1 semester students can learn about page-replacement strategies in virtual memory management CPU-scheduling strategies disk seek-time optimization & other issues in operating system design.