Applied Operating System Concepts

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Summary: Good First O/S Book
Review: A good introductory O/S book for undergrad/beginning graduate students. Well-designed and straightforward. Good examples of Java code.

The one drawback is a tendency to get rather wordy in some sections and ramble on a bit. Taken as a whole, however, this is a very worthwhile textbook.

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Summary: Exercises
Review: I have taken many courses at both undergrad and grad levels and in doing so have come across books that left me wondering. This book in contrast is wonderful! It is excellent at covering the full spectrum of various operating system issues. I doubt I'd pick it up if I were intently interested in Macs, though. It does a good job of addressing UNIX/Solaris issues, JAVA, and of course Intel-based OS's. Was an easy read.

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Summary: Excellent!!
Review: I have taken many courses at both undergrad and grad levels and in doing so have come across books that left me wondering. This book in contrast is wonderful! It is excellent at covering the full spectrum of various operating system issues. I doubt I'd pick it up if I were intently interested in Macs, though. It does a good job of addressing UNIX/Solaris issues, JAVA, and of course Intel-based OS's. Was an easy read.

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Summary: easy to read and up-to-date
Review: Jave, NT, Linux... This is the only OS text book I can find which has these buzz words. Like anything else in life, Being up-to-date could be good or bad.

So is easy-to-read. Any tiny lack of details could be misleading, that's the impression I got while reading this book, I keep asking why, how, such kind of questions. It seems to be the general drawback of OS textbook, so ambicious that try to cover all the aspect, too ambicious to cover all the aspect.

Anyway, it's a good and expensive book. Easier than Tanenbaum's classics, and up-to-date. Could be a good choice for your first OS book.

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Summary: Exercises
Review: The book gives exercises at the end of each chapter, but does not give the answers to check by. Some of the Exercise questions are so difficult to find answers to.