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Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (Second Edition)

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Format
Hardcover
Model
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Dimensions
7.75 x 1.25 x 9.5 in
Weight
3.45 lb
Publisher
Prentice Hall
Publication date
January 15, 1997

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B> Most books on operating systems deal with theory while ignoring practice. While the usual principles are covered in detail, the book describes a small, but real UNIX-like operating system: MINIX. The book demonstrates how it works while illustrating the principles behind it. Operating Systems: Design and Implementation Second Edition provides the MINIX source code. The relevant selections of the MINIX code are described in detail. When it first came out, MINIX caused something of a revolution. Within weeks, it had its own newsgroup on USENET, with 40,000 people. Most wanted to make MINIX bigger and fancier. Instead, Linux was created. That has become quite popular, very large, and complicated. MINIX, on the other hand, has remained small and suitable for instruction and example. The book has been revised to include updates in MINIX, which started out as a v 7 unix clone for a floppy-disk only 8088. It is now aimed at 386, 486, and pentium machines and is based on the international posix standard instead of on v7. There are now also versions of MINIX for the Macintosh and SPARC available. Professional programmers will find this book to be a valuable resource and reference Read more

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Publisher Prentice Hall
Publication date January 15, 1997
Edition 2nd
Language English
Print length 939 pages
ISBN-10 0136386776
ISBN-13 73
Item Weight 3.45 pounds

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Professor Tanenbaum at his best
Format: Hardcover
AST rulz, hands down! For many years I had this book on my nightstand. Although operating systems have evolved from the times this book was written, all the fundamental concepts are exposed and explained here with the finest didactic from Professor Tanenbaum. With his characteristic humor-driven writing style and his hands on examples, the author carries the reader through all the main aspects of a modern operating system. Keep in mind that this book was written in a time when personal computers ran very simplistic OSs. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2013 by fmcf
... had this book years ago and thought it was great. Tannenbaum is a master at explaining technical subjects ...
Format: Hardcover
I had this book years ago and thought it was great. Tannenbaum is a master at explaining technical subjects and I just wanted to have a copy.
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2018 by Hector Saint-Hilaire
Great book...one of the few computer books to keep
Format: Hardcover
I read this about 30 years ago. It was great then, and its insights have helped me ever since. Can't find my copy, so I've just ordered another...of this edition. Yes, there are revised versions, but the original Tanenbaum is plenty good enough. Think about it, there are only a few books I have kept, across nearly forty years as a "software engineer": Brooks' "Mythical Man Month", Tanenbaum's OS, K&R "The C Programming Language", Lance Leventhal's "8080 Assembly Language", Kernighan & Plauger's "Elements of Programming Style", Constantine and Yourdon's design book, and a very few others. The rest went stale as quickly as the manuals that came with, say, MS C v3.1 ("the last good one") or various Java books or several versions of Rational O-O texts. Tanenbaum stays. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2021 by John Welch
Historically Significant, Simply Complex
Format: Hardcover
The operating system for this book, Minix, is the ancestor to the now wildly popular linux. The idea behind this book is incredible, step through some of the most important areas of Operating Systems using an open source OS which was intentionally kept very simple. Rather than a survey of all the capabilities of operating systems which we see in many other books, this book focuses in on five of the core concepts. It discusses design tradeoffs involved in selecting an implementation for any one area of an operating system and is a very respectable book from the man who wrote the Operating System in question. A Good book if you are interested in the deeper concepts of OS. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2001 by TonyS
Well coverage for fundamental OS design
Format: Hardcover
First there was Unix, then Minix , now Linux. Before Unix became a proprietary OS, its source code was available freely, hence the codes were used by many OS courses in colleges. Then things changed and the source code is no longer free. OS books will only present theories but not enough source code to show the implementation. This book is different. The authors took an extra initiative to create Minix which implements many features of Unix (and Linux) and include it into this book. I believe that this is a very good book to study OS in depth. It is reasonable that some mind stretching is needed as the subject of OS is sophisticated and complex. Highly recommended especially for Linux and Unix devotees. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2001 by Abraman
Great Book and Source Code Complete Introduction to OS
Format: Hardcover
This is another of Tannenbaums great books. It is delightful to read his books. It deepens your understanding and gives you a feeling of happiness at the same time. Specifically this book contains the entire source code of an OS (Minix THE predecessor of LINUX). It is complete and thoroughly explained. The source code is in C and sometimes in Assembler. Especially the Assembler parts are hard to grasp. The C code is sometimes very lucid sometimes I simply got lost. So I just stuck to the main text. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2002 by ws__
The book with real source codes in it
Format: Hardcover
This is a good book to begin with on the subject of operating systems. I always wanted to look at an operating systems source code upclose, with a good explanation of whats going on, and this book has around 30,000 lines of it with comments. I hope the authors will come out with another book on the the init process and a few other services. I had a couple of laughs reading the book. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2000 by "codedaemon"
Four Stars
Format: Hardcover
Excellent
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2017 by Victor Antoniazzi
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