Operating System Concepts (7th Edition),   ISBN:9780471694663

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I'm using this book in a graduate level computer science course, and find this book to be the most boring textbook I have ever had the misfortune of reading. The wording in this textbook is very dry and uninteresting, and the author makes no attempt to keep the reader's interest in the materials he is presenting. The only positive I can say, is that I got this book used off of Amazon for only six dollars, and it arrived in almost brand new condition.

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I ordered this book online but no option was available for express delivery. The standard delivery which was available was thus utilized and the item received within the stipulated delivery estimate (three weeks).

Overall the experince was fine but I would have preffered an option for express delivery which did not appear from the sellers' delivery method.

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Great read. Anyone who wants to dive into the basics of kernel programming should read this book. There is a good set of practice problems, but personally I found the writing done well enough so that I did not need the extra practice. In addition, the writers have a sense of humor and make the reading fun, rather than a listing of computer facts like other books.

Good book.

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Very helpful in understanding basic concepts. Examples is what makes this text stand out, with plenty of examples, and a good website to view source code

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This was the text used in the Operating Systems course when I was in undergrad at Wisconsin. It was a useful reference for my projects including a CPU scheduler, file system implementation, caching algorithms, etc. It's more conceptual, which I like--it's more important to truely understand the concepts and I think that once you have that, the implementation is often the easy part.

This book was also instrumental in my understanding of synchronization and multi-threaded programming.