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Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (Hardcover)

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum (Author), Albert S. Woodhull (Author)

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Hardcover: 939 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (8 Jan 1997)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0136386776
ISBN-13: 978-0136386773
Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 18.4 x 4.1 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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Appropriate for introductory courses on computer operating systems.

This book offers a unique and carefully integrated combination of principles and practice. While the usual principles are covered in detail, the book also describes a small, but real UNIX-like operating system: MINIX. It shows how it works and illustrates the principles behind it. By using MINIX, students learn principles and then can apply them in hands-on system design projects.

About the Author

Andrew S. Tanenbaum has a B.S. Degree from M.I.T. and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he heads the Computer Systems Group. He is also Dean of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, an interuniversity graduate school doing research on advanced parallel, distributed, and imaging systems. Nevertheless, he is trying very hard to avoid turning into a bureaucrat.

In the past, he has done research on compilers, operating systems, networking, and local-area distributed systems. His current research focuses primarily on the design of wide-area distributed systems that scale to a billion users. These research projects have led to five books and over 85 referred papers in journals and conference proceedings.

Prof. Tanenbaum has also produced a considerable volume of software. He was the principal architect of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit, a widely-used toolkit for writing portable compilers, as well as of MINIX, a small UNIX clone intended for use in student programming labs. Together with his Ph.D. students and programmers, he helped design the Amoeba distributed operating system, a high-performance microkernel-based distributed operating system. The MINIX and Amoeba systems are now available for free via the Internet..

Prof. Tanenbaum is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, winner of the 1994 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and winner of the 1997 ACM/SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education. He is also listed in Who’s Who in the World.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Core Text for Imperial College, London Students, 1 April 2002

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This book was the core text for my Operating Systems course in 1st year and again in 2nd year. I didn't think I would use it last year, but how wrong was I... this book is essential if trying to learn about the depths of OS's.

I would say that if the lecturers at Imperial College recommend it, then it would be suitable for any similar Computing degree.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Book, strongly UN*X based., 18 Jan 2001

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Despite the fact that a large proportion of this book (about 1/3) is a code listing of MINIX it is informational and instructive. Unlike some other books on the subject it tackles the issues involved in a practical and pragmatic way. Ocassionaly it skips over bits of the implementation but this usually helps to carry the flow of the book more than anything. There are questions at the end of each chapter, often containing sugestions for modifications to make to the source code (included on CD). This is where the book stands out, I enjoyed doing this a lot (I wish I had a copy of the solutions manual though). I would have liked some coverage of how MINIX handles Networking (which is not discused). The memory managment chapter is very well done and there is a nicely sized Bibliography. On the whole a good book for any one who wants to understand how an operating system works, and a good introduction to anyone who wants to start modifiying one.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Operating Systems Introduction, 27 Sep 2000

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This book is a wonderful example of how to write a clear, concise, informative text book. The style is easy to read, covers the appropriate level of detail at every stage and manages to pack in a fair amount of information. Best of all, you get a compact, well documented UNIX clone suitable for using, expanding and learning from.

I spent a lot of time at university hacking the provided source, tweaking, changing, testing, expanding and there's no better way to learn about operating systems than to have the MINIX source and this book side-by-side.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
Fast delivery, quality as described.
Book contests are really good, it has the advantage of having the full source code of a whole Operating System (MINIX) in it... Read more

Published 7 months ago by Ms. B. Devenyi

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but...
... a picture really is worth a 1000 words (or some 29,000 lines of source code in this case.) The author spends pages and pages explaining a topic - having you constantly jump... Read more

Published on 22 Jun 2007 by Terry Stebbens

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book
This is a fantastic read. It's only in it's second edition but the information is up to date, and timeless. The Minix CD is great fun too. Read more

Published on 25 Mar 2003 by Mike Hibbett

4.0 out of 5 stars The definative guide to Operating Systems
This book is simple to understand for the technically minded computing student but can be slightly confusing in the implimentation sections which may have been better placed... Read more

Published on 11 Jan 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars With this book, you have everything to start writing your OS
I'm only studying computer sciences for 1 year, so I'm still a beginner, and this book was easy for me to read. It faces you with much of the tasks an OS has. Read more

Published on 24 Aug 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book. Period.
Outstanding book. See All synonyms for "Great". MINIX makes this book unique learning experience. Read more

Published on 11 Jun 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars I liked it and I didn't even install Minux...
I used this book in an OS course when the assigned text proved too annoying. It has very concise and well-written sections which are general to all OSes. Read more

Published on 6 Jan 1999

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