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It's a textbook on Operating Systems. There's not really all that much to say about it beyond that, so instead I will compare it to two other OS textbooks that I've read, 'Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective' by Gary Nutt and 'Modern Operating Systems' by Tanenbaum, generally regarded as the seminal textbook on the subject.OS Concepts is, to put it bluntly, very dry. This is somewhat expected with a book on Operating Systems, but the level of dryness is worth noting. I often foun It's a textbook on Operating Systems. There's not really all that much to say about it beyond that, so instead I will compare it to two other OS textbooks that I've read, 'Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective' by Gary Nutt and 'Modern Operating Systems' by Tanenbaum, generally regarded as the seminal textbook on the subject.OS Concepts is, to put it bluntly, very dry. This is somewhat expected with a book on Operating Systems, but the level of dryness is worth noting. I often found the book difficult to stay awake reading.
Compared with Tanenbaum's book, it's slightly less dry and occasionally more conversational, but it doesn't come close to approaching Nutt's book in terms of presentation and readability.OS Concepts also has a strange tendency to rapidly switch from being extremely detailed and getting into very low-level mechanics to being almost humorously broad. In one chapter I was looking at detailed drawings of how virtual memory works in operating systems, and a few chapters later I was reading about what a virus is and how you should use tapes to back up important files. The tone is all over the place, with some chapters feeling like 'Operating Systems for Dummies' full of advice for how to effectively USE your computer and pick good passwords, and other chapters feeling like lengthy tomes on how to effectively DESIGN an operating system.
These shifts make the book significantly harder to read, because it's dangerous to skim through a section that seems basic, as it may often contain important details as well.One key advantage of OS Concepts is that each edition comes in two flavors: regular and Java. Initially I had hoped that the Java version of the book would be the same book, simply using Java for code samples for familiarity with Java programmers.
Unfortunately, while that is occasionally true, more often than not the book is simply the regular OS concepts book, with a few Java-specific sections tacked onto the end of each chapter.Overall, it's not a bad book, but I don't really see the audience for it. If you want the nitty-gritty, classic detail of OS design, you should probably stick with Tanenbaum's classic text. If you want a more conversational, readable Operating Systems book (with just as much information), it'd be better to stick with Nutt's. Silberschatz's book falls somewhere in the middle, and is therefore as effective as neither. Serves as a great complement to more applied books like Linux Kernel Development or Linux Device Drivers, filling all remaining theoretical gaps and providing the history of OS evolution.Fits well for self-study.
Almost every exercise, which there is a lot of, has a reference solution available either on the book's website or in the instructor's manual for the 7th edition, which can be easily found on the internet. Plus programming problems to gain a better understanding of essential OS topics. Serves as a great complement to more applied books like Linux Kernel Development or Linux Device Drivers, filling all remaining theoretical gaps and providing the history of OS evolution.Fits well for self-study. Almost every exercise, which there is a lot of, has a reference solution available either on the book's website or in the instructor's manual for the 7th edition, which can be easily found on the internet. Plus programming problems to gain a better understanding of essential OS topics.This book is not perfect though, it has its flaws. Someone may consider it dry.
It has some inconsistencies, ambiguities and typos, but on overall it is still a good book and is totally worth reading. Computer-System Structures3. Operating-System Structures4. CPU Scheduling6. Process Synchronization7. Memory Management9.
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Historical PerspectiveBibliographyCreditsIndex. Like most people, this was the text used for my operating systems course. I found it to be incredibly hard to follow at times and quite boring. Some people might argue that it's hard to make content like this interesting, but I found other authors, such as Andrew Tanenbaum, cover the material much faster and in a more understandable way. My main issue is that it assumes knowledge on some things but will explain others in an inconsistent manner. I generally had to search for a quite a few things Like most people, this was the text used for my operating systems course.
I found it to be incredibly hard to follow at times and quite boring. Some people might argue that it's hard to make content like this interesting, but I found other authors, such as Andrew Tanenbaum, cover the material much faster and in a more understandable way. My main issue is that it assumes knowledge on some things but will explain others in an inconsistent manner.
I generally had to search for a quite a few things when taking notes because I didn't understand the way they were being introduced.Aside from the writing style and presentation, I felt like it was a fine enough book, just not necessarily the only one you'll need if you're entirely new to studying operating systems in this way. I remember this being one of my most-loved books in university. Operating systems was one of my favourite courses and this textbook kept me incredibly fascinating. It was also, at least for me, overwhelmingly dense since in university I was being piled under new concepts that didn't sink in due to lack of practical application and general vocational immaturity.Reading it again. It's a good book.
It's possibly a good reference, given that my particular copy is ancient. But I hav I remember this being one of my most-loved books in university. Operating systems was one of my favourite courses and this textbook kept me incredibly fascinating. It was also, at least for me, overwhelmingly dense since in university I was being piled under new concepts that didn't sink in due to lack of practical application and general vocational immaturity.Reading it again. It's a good book. It's possibly a good reference, given that my particular copy is ancient. But I have to wonder if there's anything in this book that can't be reconstructed from wikipedia and other resources out there.
There are also many great legitimately free operating systems books, like Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces, that it's hard for me to justify it except as a well-curated and well-written, if not pedagogically unique, guide.CLRS is a book I'll keep forever because it and maybe 'The Algorithms Design Manual' have not been replaced by any other resource. It's hard for me to say the same thing here. I read the fourth edition, from 95. I think writing an OS textbook must be a difficult case of trying to achieve balance: balancing the right topics, from a sea of concepts related to operating systems and computer operation; balancing enough detail to be interesting and useful with simplicity and accessibility needed in an introductory textbook.OS Concepts does a pretty good job of finding balance. The topics covered are pretty good: pretty much everything I think is centrally impor I read the fourth edition, from 95.
I think writing an OS textbook must be a difficult case of trying to achieve balance: balancing the right topics, from a sea of concepts related to operating systems and computer operation; balancing enough detail to be interesting and useful with simplicity and accessibility needed in an introductory textbook.OS Concepts does a pretty good job of finding balance. The topics covered are pretty good: pretty much everything I think is centrally important to OS design is in there, to some degree. The amount of detail was generally just about right; some areas could have used more detail, and some things could have been trimmed.
(Of course, that might be easier to say for me now, given that the edition I read came out almost two decades ago - then again, the things I'm talking about have been critically important for longer than that.)It is funny to see how some of the resource constraints have changed over time. At a few points, it's almost shocking: for example, describing how some approach is obviously unworkable since it would require all of four megabytes of DRAM to implement. Operating Systems Concepts is a great undergraduate-level resource for its subject, focusing, as its name advertises, on the concepts behind building an operating system.
Outside of the exercises, the text spends relatively little time on code examples or gritty details, relegating that to suggested reading or simply saying 'Go look at an open-source operating system!' .This emphasis on concepts makes a great deal of sense given the variance in how to accomplish goals and the sheer amount of gro Operating Systems Concepts is a great undergraduate-level resource for its subject, focusing, as its name advertises, on the concepts behind building an operating system.
Outside of the exercises, the text spends relatively little time on code examples or gritty details, relegating that to suggested reading or simply saying 'Go look at an open-source operating system!' .This emphasis on concepts makes a great deal of sense given the variance in how to accomplish goals and the sheer amount of groundwork which the book needs to cover. The book is already over 900 pages!This book is a great read for any long-time user of operating systems who wants to understand the amazing piece of software that orchestrates their entire computing experience, as well as being great review for practitioners who want a refresher. This is a very in depth book on the subject of operating system architecture. I read most of it as part of a class I took on the same subject.The book is very in-depth and enlightening. But by no means is this an easy read. As another review said this book is extremely dry.However I did learn quite a bit about how computers work, and how different algorithms are deployed in operating systems.
Unfortunately, as is the nature for school, I will probably never use most of this despite being requi This is a very in depth book on the subject of operating system architecture. I read most of it as part of a class I took on the same subject.The book is very in-depth and enlightening.
But by no means is this an easy read. As another review said this book is extremely dry.However I did learn quite a bit about how computers work, and how different algorithms are deployed in operating systems. Unfortunately, as is the nature for school, I will probably never use most of this despite being required to take it, as my interest lie in other parts of Computer Science. Abraham Silberschatz is the Sidney J.
Weinberg Professor & Chair of Computer Science at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories. Prior to that, he held a chaired professorship in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.Professor Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an Abraham Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor & Chair of Computer Science at Yale University.
Prior to joining Yale, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories. Prior to that, he held a chaired professorship in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.Professor Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.
He received the 2002 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the 1998 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and the 1997 ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award. In recognition of his outstanding level of innovation and technical excellence, he was awarded the Bell Laboratories President's Award for three different projects - the QTM Project (1998), the DataBlitz Project (1999), and the Netlnventory Project (2004).Professor Silberschatz' writings have appeared in numerous ACM and IEEE publications and other professional conferences and journals. He has also written Op-Ed articles for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Hartford Courant, among others.
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