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Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles (Hardcover)

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Hardcover: 781 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition (26 Jan 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0138874077
ISBN-13: 978-0138874070
Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 18.5 x 3.5 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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This text is suitable for the first undergraduate through graduate operating systems course found in computer science and computer engineering departments.
Winner of the 1998 Texty Award for the best Computer Science and Engineering Textbook, which is given by the Text and Academic Authors Association!
Blending up-to-date theory with modern applications, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of operating systems with an emphasis on internals and design issues.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unconvential, yet very useful., 27 Feb 2003

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This review is from: Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles (Prentice Hall international editions) (Hardcover)

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A well-presented text, with superb material, 29 April 2001

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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!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Excellent Book!, 15 Jun 1999

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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.

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