Operating Systems: A Design-Oriented Approach [Hardcover]

Charles Crowley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0256151512 | ISBN-13: 978-0256151510

This text provides coverage of all the basic systems concepts and shows how they evolved to their present forms. Basic code is presented for the important parts of the operating system, as well as references to design tools, keys to designing and implementing operating system data structures and software engineering rules of thumb. The approach is generallly oriented towards UNIX operating systems but in each section the author discusses how the conepts are implemented in several major operating systems. An emulator is available to allow students and insructors to run the code implementing the operating system.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 896 pages
• Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing (November 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0256151512
• ISBN-13: 978-0256151510
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.8 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #410,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for use as supplementary material only, May 15, 2001

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"amalim" (Karachi, Pakistan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Operating Systems: A Design-Oriented Approach (Hardcover)

The book by Crowley introduces the operating systems while explaining how to design one (just as the name suggests). After every chapter in which on of the OS function is discusses, there is a chapter on how to design these features.

The book does not give the operating systems basics. While reading some chapters, it seems that the author assumes that you know the concept. For example, when discussing messaging, nowhere in the book, it is explained what it is, why it is?

Most of the code written in the book is beyond understanding. No useful explanation is given anywhere.

Apart from that the information provided in it is good for supplementary material. I've used it as supporting book along with 'Operating Systems Concept' by Silberchatz for undergrad course. Some topics like threads, IPC, and synchronization are better explained in the Crowley's book than in the Silberchatz book.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars clear exposition, December 27, 2000

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W. E. Barber (DAYTONA BEACH, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Operating Systems: A Design-Oriented Approach (Hardcover)

I have over twenty operating system books and I think that this is one of the best. I am still puzzled to why there have not been more reviews about this book.

This is the clearest view of the subject that I have encountered.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars must read, February 13, 2002

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Manish (India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Operating Systems: A Design-Oriented Approach (Hardcover)

A must read not only for OS concepts and design but for the
different aproaches to be taken while doing a product development.
Gives design considerations and techniques for all the major OS modules in detail and with examples.