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ELSEVIER SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PRINCIPLES OF COMPUTER SYSTEM DESIGN AN INTRODUCTION PB by Jerome H. Saltzer M. Frans Kaashoek
Principles of Computer System Design is the first textbook to take a principles-based approach to the computer system design. It identifies examines and illustrates fundamental concepts in computer system design that are common across operating systems networks database systems distributed systems programming languages software engineering security fault tolerance and architecture.Through carefully analyzed case studies from each of these disciplines it demonstrates how to apply these concepts to tackle practical system design problems. To support the focus on design the text identifies and explains abstractions that have proven successful in practice such as remote procedure call client/service organization file systems data integrity consistency and authenticated messages. Most computer systems are built using a handful of such abstractions. The text describes how these abstractions are implemented demonstrates how they are used in different systems and prepares the reader to apply them in future designs.The book is recommended for junior and senior undergraduate students in Operating Systems Distributed Systems Distributed Operating Systems and/or Computer Systems Design courses; and professional computer systems designers.