New in Third Edition!

• Uses all the most common operating systems, including Linux, Unix, and Windows XP.
• Updated and enhanced Table of Contents.
  Now includes:
  • Introduction to handheld and wireless systems.
  • Updated and expanded chapter on security.
  • More on threads, including UNIX and Windows threads, as well as a lab project with this material.
  • Additional information on SMP/multiprocessors.
  • New coverage of storage media.
• Pedagogy and overall design enhanced, including adding another color, to improve usability by students.
• Addition of many new exercises to provide practice for students.
• More than twice as many are included to give students substantial hands-on experience with Linux, Unix, and Windows XP.
• Enhanced supplement package to make it easier than ever to teach with and learn from this book.