Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction [Hardcover]

Max Hailperin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 19, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0534423698 | ISBN-13: 978-0534423698 | Edition: 1

Intended for juniors, seniors, and first-year graduate students, Max Hailperin's Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction takes a modern approach to the traditional Operating Systems course. By using this innovative text, students will obtain an understanding of how contemporary operating systems and middleware work, and why they work that way. They will also gain practical skills including the ability to reason about and program concurrent computations, understand hardware/software interactions, use empirical measurement to guide design, and analyze system security.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 474 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology; 1 edition (January 19, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534423698
• ISBN-13: 978-0534423698
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,081,591 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I write to help people learn. For that reason, my books are available free on the web. See https://gustavus.edu/+max/os-book/ and https://gustavus.edu/+max/concrete-abstractions.html

I earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and an S.B. in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.

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3.0 out of 5 stars I used it for a summer session and will not be using it again, August 4, 2008

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction (Hardcover)

This past summer, I used this book as the text in my operating systems class where in the past I had used "Operating Systems: Third Edition", by Gary Nutt. There were two reasons for the change.

*) The material that I wanted to cover is more compact in the Hailperein book and the compressed schedule of the summer forces the material to be delivered in a more compact format.
*) The code examples are all in Java, which is a bit more consistent with the tactics we use in our major.
*) While there was little coverage of middleware, I thought that I could take up the slack.

Now that the course is over, I look back at how things went and have concluded that I will not be using this book again. There is just too little coverage of middleware to make up the slack in a short time period. I also concluded that there is not quite the depth of coverage overall that I feel is necessary in the course. Therefore, at this time I am engaged in a search for a new textbook for operating systems.

3.0 out of 5 stars Mostly "Operating Systems", little "Middleware", May 28, 2008

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Thomas E. Seeley (Columbus, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction (Hardcover)

I bought the book to get more background on middleware. However, the book is rather just a book on operating systems in general. The smattering of middleware discussion does not merit the mention of it on the book's cover.