Book details of 'Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (Second Edition)'

Title	Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (Second Edition)
Author(s)	Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull
ISBN	0136386776
Language	English
Published	January 1997
Publisher	Prentice Hall

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
On the one hand, there are a number of academic texts which explain the theory and concepts behind operating systems. On the other hand, there is the proverbial exhortation to read the source code for UNIX (the one, true operating system). This book give you both hands -- an excellent conceptual presentation of the basics, plus the source code for MINIX. Depending upon your perspective, this book might be seen as the text for a first-level operating system course, with advanced topics to be dealt with later. Networking, concurrency, and objects are not dealt with in depth. It could equally be argued, though, that, like MINIX itself, the book is basic but entirely functional. Additional topics may well be frills. copyright Robert M. Slade, 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 book.