Operating Systems Theory Computer Science Books : Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles

Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles

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Unconvential, yet very useful. - I liked this book s organization. I have also Tanenbaum s and Silberschatz s, what I concluded it s that this book, even if sometime appeared to be a bit ... compacted on some traditional issues (if I can judge them this way on the basis of the other two books, but processes statuses are covered here better than anywhere else), it has given space to some other very interesting ones, starting from Security, and going on with SMP topics.I particularly enjoyed the view it adopted even on common topics. E.g. the emphasis it gave to subtleties like distinguish the nature of the four requirements for deadlocks, the classification of various policies and mechanism (in a astonishingly efficient way) for topics like scheduling, paged memory issues or the importance of interrupts as The tool for modern techniques and achievements.And ... the chapter on security has been a lifesave for me on the last days of the course. Keep this book near to Tanenbaum s second edition of Modern Operatin System if you can, and you ll have plenty of good material for a typical OS course.

This Book is incredibly waffley and limited, dont buy it! - I brought this book as a recommendation from a University lecturer. However like all his other books its filled with endless amounts of waffle with few diagrams to explain whats being said. I also found it very limited in content. For instance i was required to answer a question on virtual memory addresses only to find a three line explanation! The problem is anything you need to know is either not included in the book or its written in such away it leaves you dangling, thinking are we talking about the same thing here? or where did that come from? etc. This is especially true for this book as it seems to over stretched its self by containg a little about a lot, which is a shame...Oh for any one interested i m doing a BSC Multimedia Computing (so u know not too buy it if your doing the same corse as me!)

A well-presented text, with superb material - I bought this book for my first year Operating Systems course at University, and in my opinion it is one of the best books I have invested in. Stallings presents the material well, with numerous examples on advanced topics such as Semaphores, and provides the reader with up-to-date material on both Windows 2000 and Linux. Stallings has done it again - this book is superb!

Truly Excellent Book! - I just finished grad school in Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I borrowed this book from my Professor and after reading it for a while I am now buying it to use as a reference on the job. I can state quite confidently that it is one of the best OS books I have read. I strongly recommend this book for university coursework, particularly at the undergraduate level.

Excellent fundamentals of operating systems text. - I read this text in an Operating Systems class at the University of Phoenix. I liked the bad examples which were faulted by another reviewer, just as much as I liked the good examples. The bad examples show different approaches to solving the same problem, while showing the difficulty one might encounter while attempting to solve the problem that way.My conclusion: if you are interested in the bottom line or right answer, this book contains a lot of extraneous information. If you are interested in the hows and whys of current practice, this book is probably for you.




Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles