Operating Systems: Design and Implementation

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Albert S. Woodhull

Book Overview

Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 3e, is ideal for introductory courses on computer operating systems. Written by the creator of Minux, professional programmers will now have the most... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0136374069
• ISBN13: 9780136374060
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.2" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

The book with real source codes in it

This is a good book to begin with on the subject of operating systems. I always wanted to look at an operating systems source code upclose, with a good explanation of whats going on, and this book has around 30,000 lines of it with comments. I hope the authors will come out with another book on the the init process and a few other services. I had a couple of laughs reading the book.

One of the best OS books out there

First off, don't be fooled by people who claim this to be an "easy read". It isn't ... reading the entire book will take weeks, as the text is packed with information, not to mention exercises following each section. That being said, I highly recommend the book. It provides a thorough introduction to operating systems basics, from scheduling to terminals, along with source code. Don't expect to absorb it all at once!

With this book, you have everything to start writing your OS

I'm only studying computer sciences for 1 year, so I'm still a beginner, and this book was easy for me to read. It faces you with much of the tasks an OS has. It explains everything in detail. Example: It explains step by step, what's going on with a character you typed, untill it's on your screen. Maybe, you thought it was simple. Well, it isn't, but the book explains it very easy, so you can easily understand it with a bit of brains. PS. You don't have to know your English very well, because I understood the book, and normally I never speak English, because I speak Flemisch.

Great Book. Period.

Outstanding book. See All synonyms for "Great". MINIX makes this book unique learning experience. Let us not forget MINIX was the source of inspiration for LINUX and many porions of MINIX can be found in LINUX.

I liked it and I didn't even install Minux...

I used this book in an OS course when the assigned text proved too annoying. It has very concise and well-written sections which are general to all OSes. I actually skipped most of the Minux-specific sections, and never got around to installing the OS (life is short!). So perhaps my experience isn't typical. But the book can certainly be used to get a nice and terse overview of OS concepts.