Bücher von Lister

Still of the Night finds Burke and Blade searching for Charlotte Nelson, a young woman who's not what she seems.She vanished off the face of the earth two weeks ago and she nor her car nor the belongings she had with her have been seen since.Who is the mysterious man in black caught on camera following her the night of her disappearance?Is her creepy fiancé, Logan Owens, responsible? Or one of her many fans from Cloud Nine where she danced? Was it the maintenance man from her apartment complex who's hiding something sinister in the shed behind his mobile home out in the middle of nowhere? Or was it the rent-a-merc security company she worked for part-time?Burke and Blade have to find her before it's too late-and they have to do so while caring for and protecting their niece, Alana, and while Lexi Miller, Burke's girlfriend and former probation officer, lies fighting for her life in ICU.A thrilling story with so many twists and turns and laughs you'll read all night!

An operating system is probably the most important part of the body of soft- ware which goes with any modern computer system. I ts importance is reflected in the large amount of manpower usually invested in its construction, and in the mystique by which it is often surrounded. To the non-expert the design and construction of operating systems has often appeared an activity impenetrable to those who do not practise it. I hope this book will go some way toward dispelling the mystique, and encourage a greater general understanding of the principles on which operating systems are constructed. The material in the book is based on a course of lectures I have given for the past few years to undergraduate students of computer science. The book is therefore a suitable introduction to operating systems for students who have a basic grounding in computer science, or for people who have worked with computers for some time. Ideally the reader should have a knowledge of prorramming and be familiar with general machine architecture, common data structures such as lists and trees, and the functions of system software such as compilers, loaders, and editors. I t will also be helpful if he has had some experience of using a large operating system, seeing it, as it were, from the out- side.