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| Operating System Concepts
Hardcover
Edition: 7
Author: Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne
Publisher: Wiley
Release Date: 2004-12-14
ISBN-10: 0471694665
ISBN-13: 9780471694663
List Price: $103.16
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Another defining moment in the evolution of operating systems
Small footprint operating systems, such as those driving the handheld devices that the baby dinosaurs are using on the cover, are just one of the cutting-edge applications you'll find in Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne's Operating System Concepts, Seventh Edition.
By staying current, remaining relevant, and adapting to emerging course needs, this market-leading text has continued to define the operating systems course. This Seventh Edition not only presents the latest and most relevant systems, it also digs deeper to uncover those fundamental concepts that have remained constant throughout the evolution of today's operation systems. With this strong conceptual foundation in place, students can more easily understand the details related to specific systems.
New Adaptations
* Increased coverage of user perspective in Chapter 1.
* Increased coverage of OS design throughout.
* A new chapter on real-time and embedded systems (Chapter 19).
* A new chapter on multimedia (Chapter 20).
* Additional coverage of security and protection.
* Additional coverage of distributed programming.
* New exercises at the end of each chapter.
* New programming exercises and projects at the end of each chapter.
* New student-focused pedagogy and a new two-color design to enhance the learning process.
Ho hum yawn
| Customer Rating: | Perhaps it is my short attention span or my lack of interest in this book, but I felt the information in this book was puffed up with alot of technical jargon and not much consistency.
Using multi-threading classes was a good idea, but how it was explained was boring and shuffled throughout the book. |
Fairly good delivery time
| Customer Rating: | | I bought a used book that is still in good shape. The delivery time was also fair. |
OS Time
| Customer Rating: | | Please, it's a book on operating systems with a flippin dinosaur on the cover. Actually not a bad book, though in reality, I did feel like a retard reading something with a dinosaur theme throughout the book. Then again, I feel like a retard most days. |
If you take a class...
| Customer Rating: | | That uses this as it's text, be worried. The book is decent, but definitely just "concepts," no intensive knowledge is conveyed in it's pages. Oh well. |
Somewhat interesting but flawed
| Customer Rating: | This book offers coverage of issues encountered in designing an operating system, but does this in a rather dry and uninteresting manner, using examples and diagrams which are somewhat contrived and confusing at times.
Its code snippets are often incorrect and shows no sign it has ever been checked for correctness. I am basing this assumption on the fact this is the 7th edition and blatant errors still exists. Errors range from syntax to logic errors, both in the explanations and code provided.
The book also does not explain certain algorithms, and merely prints them in pseudo code, then moves on with not insights into the how and why of it.
If you have no other choice, then this book will suffice as long as you take what it says with a grain of salt, and apply your own logic rather than take what the authors say as gospel.
Cheers,
Steve |
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