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This book intends to provide a proper understanding of the theoretical and practical concepts of Operating system. Detailed knowledge of the fundamentals of Operating system design and their application to design issues and development of Operating systems are provided in this book. These include basic concepts such as interprocess communication, semaphores, monitors, message passing, scheduling, device drivers, memory management, paging algorithm, deadlocks, file system design issues, security and protection mechanism.For the readers benefit, the case studies for LINUX, UNIX and Windows 2000/XP operating systems are given to illustrate the practical implementation of resource management s strategies. This helps in better understanding of the principles and their application in a real operating system.