Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

OSTEP (“oh step”), or the “the comet book”, represents the fruits of years of instructing intro to working techniques to each undergraduates and graduates on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Sciences division for practically 20 years.The ebook is organized round three ideas basic to OS development: virtualization (of CPU and reminiscence), concurrency (locks and situation variables), and persistence (disks, RAIDS, and file techniques).The materials, if mixed with critical mission work and homeworks, will lead college students to a deeper understanding and appreciation of recent OSes.The authors, Remzi and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, are each professors of Computer Sciences on the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They have been doing analysis in laptop techniques for over 20 years, working collectively since their first graduate working techniques class at U.C. Berkeley in 1993.Since that point, they’ve printed over 100 papers on the efficiency and reliability of many points of recent laptop techniques, with a particular concentrate on file and storage techniques. Their work has been acknowledged with quite a few best-paper awards, and a few of their improvements could be discovered within the Linux and BSD working techniques as we speak.