CPSC 4/526 SPRING 2024 RESOURCE PAGE

LIBRARY

All available online.

Textbook 1 (required): Operating System Concepts by A. Silberschatz, P.B. Galvin and G. Gagne.

Eighth edition (2008): Available for free at Safari Books Online; book's web page

Textbook 2 (optional): Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design (1st Ed., 2003) by Jean Bacon and Tim Harris.

Textbook 3 (optional): Unix Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Threads (2003) by Kay and Steven Robbins.

Think OS: A Brief Introduction to Operating Systems by Downey (V. 0.3.2, 2014). Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction by Hailperin (V. 1.1.6, 2014). Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike3.0 Unported License.

Interesting Reading, March 2016 CACM:

Chapter	Reading Assignment (10e)
1: Introduction	SGG 1.1-1.5, 1.10
2: Operating System Structures	SGG 2.1-2.4, 2.8, 2.9
3: Processes	SGG 3.1-3.4, 3.7
4: Threads and Concurrency	SGG 4.1-4.5
5: CPU Scheduling	SGG 5.1-5.4, 5.6
6: Synchronization Tools	SGG 6.1-6.2, 6.4, 6.6, 6.8
7: Synchronization Examples	SGG 7.1-7.3, 7.5
8: Deadlocks	SGG 8.1, 8.3-8.5
9: Main Memory	SGG 9.1-9.3, 9.5
10: Virtual Memory	SGG 10.1-10.6, 10.9-10.10
11: Mass-Storage Structure	SGG 11.1, 11.2, 11.5, 11.6
12: I/O Systems	SGG 12.1-12.5, 12.7
13: File-System Internals	SGG 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
14: File-System Implementation	SGG 14.1-14.6
15: File-System Internals	SGG 15.1-15.3
16/17: Protection and Security	SGG 16.1-16.3, 17.1-17.2, 17.4-17.7, 17.10, 17.12
18: Virtual Machines	SGG 18
19: Networks and Distributed Systems	SGG 19
20: The Linux System	SGG 20