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 | | Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective, Lab Update (2nd Edition) by Gary J. Nutt, Gary Nutt ISBN-10: 9780201741964 ISBN-10: 0-201-74196-2 ISBN-13: 9780201741964 ISBN-13: 978-0-201-74196-4 Hardcover 2001-07-18 Addison Wesley Publishing Company Find Lowest Price |
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great OS book This books picks up examples from real operating systems.. the conslusions at the end of every chapter make sense to anybody who has actually written code for an OS rather than one of those books that pontificate about how it is supposed to be. | ||
Good textbook As a text book, it is very good. I have read much worse. At some points, it will try to explain topics using actual code used by operative systems, and that can be confusing and hard to follow, especially Windows kernel code. And the exercises are hard if you do not have much practice with system software. On the good part, it is easy to read (talkative like, not lectury), and uses simple and easy to understand analogies. Another good thing about this book is that has a very complete index, and a very useful glossary. | ||
Not a bad book - tough to read in sections. Overall, this book covers the topic adequately with alot of examples and indepth applications. There are sections where Nutt can get alittle obtuse with his mathematical treatise on the subject matter. There are also alot of typo errors throughout the book so be sure to get the errata sheet. Keep in mind that computer science is a tough field and requires alot of discipline and mental apptitude. There are alot of people trying to enter this field who simply do not have the ability at this. Hence, some of the aforementioned criticisms of this book are not totally justified. The book does require work and that is what computer science is all about - HARD WORK! | ||
Wordy, convoluted, boring Nutt spends an amazing number of pages covering simple topics, yet his writing is so convoluted, learning from this book is very difficult. He attempts to take a mathematical approach to such simple topics as first-come-first-served scheduling algorithm where the math simply confuses the matter. Overall, this book is boring and hard to understand. | ||
uninformative and incoherent Gary Nutt is incapable of writing. He is verbose and repetitive and spends a lot of time on pointless topics, such as notation for sets. Like so many mediocre authors, he fills the text with pseudo-mathematical notation to make it seem more sophisticated. The typesetting is deplorable, and I recommend he learn LaTeX. Nutt assumes the reader is a complete idiot. The book is an overview of the concepts of operating systems, which aren't remotely sophisticated. You will not learn anything practical about Operating Systems, and the concepts he covers are so trivial that you could learn in all in a day (once you extract them from the hundreds of pages or jargon and silly diagrams). I recommend "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" by Andrew Tanenbaum and Al Woodhull instead of this trash. | ||