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 | | Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles (4th Edition) by William Stallings ISBN-10: 9780130319999 ISBN-10: 0-13-031999-6 ISBN-13: 9780130319999 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-031999-9 Hardcover 2000-12-15 Prentice Hall Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Blending up-to-date theory with state-of-the-art applications, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of operating systems, with an emphasis on internals and design issues. It helps readers develop a solid understanding of the key structures and mechanisms of operating systems, the types of trade-offs and decisions involved in OS design, and the context within which the operating system functions (hardware, other system programs, application programs, interactive users). Process Description And Control. Threads, SMP, And Microkernels. Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion And Synchronization. Concurrency: Deadlock And Starvation. Memory Management. Virtual Memory. Uniprocessor Scheduling. Multiprocessor And Real-Time Scheduling. I/O Management And Disk Scheduling. File Management. Distributed Processing, Client/Server, And Clusters. Distributed Process Management. Security. For product development personnel (Programmers, Systems Engineers, Network Designers, and others involved in the design of data communications and networking products), Product marketing personnel, and Information system and computer system personnel. | ||
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Excellent Product, fast service Book arrived in perfect condition. No markings anywhere on the book. Arrived very fast, within a few days of placing the order. | ||
Not the greatest The book seems to contain a lot of fluff, spending more time then necessary on trivial concepts, while spending too little time on important concepts, or presenting the important concepts unclearly. The book is not horrible, and most concepts are covered adequately. | ||
From A Nerd of Nerds I am a nerd. As a student at the end of my Junior year, CS Grads wonder how I know more about topics they studied in 400 level courses than they do. The answer is simple; I enjoy learning. I read texts for fun. With that in mind, I think this book may be the worst book on OSs that I have seen. It is incomplete and not enjoyable, even to the most enthusiastic student. I much prefer Tanenbaum's book to this. BYU is dropping this book after using it for one semester of use. I am happy about that, but I only wish I could get a refund. This book is not a keeper. | ||
A Good Reference Book This book serves as a good reference, as it contains just about every topic related to operating systems. Like an encyclopedia, however, this is not a book that you want to read cover to cover. While all the material is there, it is not necessarily in any logical order and the material is presented in an extremely dry but straight-forward manner. I found other operating system texts, such as Tanenbaum, to be better for tutorial-style learning. But as a reference text, this book can't be beat. | ||
A very good textbook Like many other people, this book was assigned to me as a textbook for a college class. I found it to be tremendously useful, and learned far more form it than the professor. Although clearly not for a beginner, if you're serious about learning what goes into an OS, and how current OSes work on a fundamental level, this is a great reference. | ||