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Operating Systems: Principles and Practice (Volume 1 of 4) Kindle Edition

by Thomas Anderson (Author), Michael Dahlin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Operating Systems: Principles and Practice is a textbook for a first course in undergraduate operating systems. In use at dozens of top tier universities, and written by two leading operating systems researchers with decades of experience successfully teaching complex topics to thousands of students, this textbook provides:
-- A path for students to understand high level concepts all the way down to working code.
-- Extensive worked examples integrated throughout the text provide students concrete guidance for completing homework assignments.
-- A focus on up-to-date industry technologies and practice

The e-book version of Operating Systems: Principles and Practice is broken into 4 volumes:
Volume 1: Kernels and Processes
Volume 2: Concurrency
Volume 3: Memory Management
Volume 4: Persistent Storage

This is Volume 1: Kernels and Processes
In this volume, we describe the essential steps needed to isolate programs to prevent buggy applications and computer viruses from crashing or taking control of your system.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B014I57BEA
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Recursive Books; 2nd edition (August 25, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 25, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6223 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
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ShaanK12
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written and digestible
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2022
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Used this text book for my undergrad OS class. Was well worth reading, the authors did a great job.
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Malcompliance
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, somewhat poor print quality
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2014
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This is more of a "breadth" than a "depth" book. It covers many of the basic concepts you'd need to know, say, for studying for an OS exam.

Unlike many other books in this category, this book uses mostly contemporary examples. This is hugely important for students who simply can't relate to the 80's.

If I had two wishes for this book, it would be:
i) A chapter (or a section) on cache coherence
ii) Better print please. Many of the pages have a tilted print and it's somewhat distracting.
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Cole
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for undergraduate CS OS course.
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2014
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This is a great book for you if you are an undergraduate cs major student or someone who does not have much background knowledge in OS. This book explain things in very approachable way such that concepts can easily be understood (even the virtual memory part!).
The only downside of this book is that it does not cover topics in depth. If you are a graduate student researching in OS, you probably need other books instead of this one.
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pramod k
4.0 out of 5 stars informative
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2014
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brought this book for a class, yet to use it
good reference info though
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Ronnie
5.0 out of 5 stars Expansive, and Well Written
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2015
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Great book, covers lots of important topics (general OS principles, virtual memory, scheduling, shared resource allocation/lock implementation/deadlock, file systems, threads/processes, unix abstractions, I/O). When the lectures were unclear, I could always fall back on this book, find exactly what I was confused about, and figure out what I needed to know. That's the sign of great writing, and a great textbook. Also, helped me ace a job interview.
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TomRiddle
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2016
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The focus of the book is on "why" and the whole book and all sections are organized such that, they answer some important question. Saying the same thing in the different way, this book is not a laundry list of all-things-OS, rather a very carefully selected topics and examples that teach us something important in systems design and implementation. No doubt book is written by two elite, top-notch researchers! Reading this book always gives me joy! Very nice effort by authors!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Technically thorough, marred by a few unclear or plodding explanations
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2016
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I used this book for my undergraduate OS course. I also switched back and forth between this book and Tanenbaum's Modern Operating Systems (3rd ed). That helped me get a sense of what this book did well, and where it might have fallen a bit short.

PROS:
- This book is relatively deep, technically. I found it had more specifics on implementation than Tanenbaum's book.
- It has a lot of asides that are good at giving broader context for the material. For example, in explaining a scheduling algorithm, it might spend a couple paragraphs examining possible use of the scheduling algorithm outside of operating systems.

CONS:
- Not always clear. Sometimes I felt caught up in the minutiae and missed the forest for the trees. Even after re-reading some passages multiple times, I wasn't quite sure I was "getting it." This is where I would swap textbooks and read Tanenbaum's coverage of the same topic.
- Missing some material covered in Tanenbaum. Modern Operating Systems has several chapters dedicated to topics which aren't as thoroughly covered in Anderson's textbook. Some of the topics lacking include: multimedia OSs, OS design, and security.

All in all, I think this is an alright textbook, but not a great one. It might be better as a reference or as a supplement. I'm glad I had it, but if I could only have one OS book, I'd stick with Tanenbaum's.
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Tzwol
5.0 out of 5 stars You will learn a lot about ops sys
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2021
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Good book and we'll used. My teacher died during this course though. So that was kind of weird :/ nice guy.
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Microbuddha
2.0 out of 5 stars 印刷がほとんどできない。
Reviewed in Japan on September 24, 2023
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印刷がほとんどできないので不便。もう電子本はやめる。文章の周りにいろいろ書きつけたくてもできない。
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Davide Montagno Bozzone
5.0 out of 5 stars Consigliatissimo!
Reviewed in Italy on May 4, 2018
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Se volete conoscere i principi dei sistemi operativi, e come questo possa funzionare tramite strutture dati specializzate è il libro che fa per voi!
Lo uso come libro universitario per la facoltà di Informatica per l'Università di Pisa
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3.0 out of 5 stars Contents are ok but print quality is terrible
Reviewed in Australia on January 17, 2022
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I used this book as recommended by Berkeley CS162 course, 80% of my OS knowledge was acquired by doing course labs and learning source code rather than reading textbook, book is a good reference though. One thing needs to mention is that all code in this book that is supposed to be printed as monospaced font is totally messed up, which is unacceptable for a monochrome book that costs over $100.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Contents are ok but print quality is terrible
Reviewed in Australia on January 17, 2022
I used this book as recommended by Berkeley CS162 course, 80% of my OS knowledge was acquired by doing course labs and learning source code rather than reading textbook, book is a good reference though. One thing needs to mention is that all code in this book that is supposed to be printed as monospaced font is totally messed up, which is unacceptable for a monochrome book that costs over $100.
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Whitney
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
Reviewed in Canada on July 26, 2015
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My husband is a software engineering student and he bought this book as a required text. His professor wasn't very good so he relied heavily on this book to get him through the course. Thankfully it was a great book and he did wonderfully!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best textbook I've ever read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2016
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The best textbook I've ever read. Great explanation skill. Very easy to understand. I really wish I could have it when I was an undergraduate student. For someone who already works (like me) it is still such a great reference for design.
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