Table of Contents

An Introduction to Operating Systems*The Process*Scheduling and Context Switching*Paging and Memory Management*Process Synchronization*Process Data Sharing and Critical Regions*Security, Protection, and Privacy*Input/Output and Interrupts*Disks and Disk Files*History of Digital Operating Systems

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About the Author

David Donald Miller is currently employed at Raytheon Systems in Tucson, AZ, as a Principal Software Engineer. For more than 15 years he was a computer science professor at Bemidji State University (in Bemidji, MN), where he created and managed an OpenVMS clusterlaboratory. Mr. Miller also has 20 years of aerospace experience in various software engineering positions. He is the author of OpenVMS Operating System Concepts from Digital Press, and is currently at work with Steve Hoffman on the second edition of Lawrence Baldwin’s OpenVMS System Management Guide, forthcoming from Digital Press.