Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (Second Edition) 2nd Edition

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Most books on operating systems deal with theory while ignoring practice. While the usual principles are covered in detail, the book describes a small, but real UNIX-like operating system: MINIX. The book demonstrates how it works while illustrating the principles behind it. Operating Systems: Design and Implementation Second Edition provides the MINIX source code. The relevant selections of the MINIX code are described in detail. When it first came out, MINIX caused something of a revolution. Within weeks, it had its own newsgroup on USENET, with 40,000 people. Most wanted to make MINIX bigger and fancier. Instead, Linux was created. That has become quite popular, very large, and complicated. MINIX, on the other hand, has remained small and suitable for instruction and example. The book has been revised to include updates in MINIX, which started out as a v 7 unix clone for a floppy-disk only 8088. It is now aimed at 386, 486, and pentium machines and is based on the international posix standard instead of on v7. There are now also versions of MINIX for the Macintosh and SPARC available. Professional programmers will find this book to be a valuable resource and reference book.

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This book offers a unique and carefully integrated combination of principles and practice. While the usual principles are covered in detail, the book also describes a small, but real UNIX-like operating system: MINIX. It shows how it works and illustrates the principles behind it. By using MINIX, students learn principles and then can apply them in hands-on system design projects.

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Most books on operating systems deal with theory while ignoring practice. While the usual principles are covered in detail, the book describes a small, but real UNIX-like operating system: MINIX. The book demonstrates how it works while illustrating the principles behind it. Operating Systems: Design and Implementation Second Edition provides the MINIX source code. The relevant selections of the MINIX code are described in detail. When it first came out, MINIX caused something of a revolution. Within weeks, it had its own newsgroup on USENET, with 40,000 people. Most wanted to make MINIX bigger and fancier. Instead, Linux was created. That has become quite popular, very large, and complicated. MINIX, on the other hand, has remained small and suitable for instruction and example. The book has been revised to include updates in MINIX, which started out as a v 7 unix clone for a floppy-disk only 8088. It is now aimed at 386, 486, and pentium machines and is based on the international posix standard instead of on v7. There are now also versions of MINIX for the Macintosh and SPARC available. Professional programmers will find this book to be a valuable resource and reference book.

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Hardcover: 939 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2nd edition (January 15, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0136386776
ISBN-13: 978-0136386773
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Professor Tanenbaum at his best

Byfmcfon November 10, 2013

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AST rulz, hands down! For many years I had this book on my nightstand. Although operating systems have evolved from the times this book was written, all the fundamental concepts are exposed and explained here with the finest didactic from Professor Tanenbaum. With his characteristic humor-driven writing style and his hands on examples, the author carries the reader through all the main aspects of a modern operating system. Keep in mind that this book was written in a time when personal computers ran very simplistic OSs.

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Four Stars

ByMikeon October 22, 2015

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A little bit outdated but very useful introductory book.

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Historically Significant, Simply Complex

ByA. Scudieroon February 15, 2001

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The operating system for this book, Minix, is the ancestor to the now wildly popular linux. The idea behind this book is incredible, step through some of the most important areas of Operating Systems using an open source OS which was intentionally kept very simple.
Rather than a survey of all the capabilities of operating systems which we see in many other books, this book focuses in on five of the core concepts. It discusses design tradeoffs involved in selecting an implementation for any one area of an operating system and is a very respectable book from the man who wrote the Operating System in question. A Good book if you are interested in the deeper concepts of OS.

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Should be called 'Unix Operating Systems'?

ByAdam Rutkowskion October 15, 2000

Format: Hardcover

Although this book covers a great deal of topics regarding operating system designing, it is largely a book about the Unix OS, and its derivatives, particularly Minix. This is not at all bad, since it does cover a lot of general topics, but for a person interested in MS-DOS/Windows (or any other non-Unix OS for that matter), it can get boring.
The most important point to make about this book is: If you don't plan on messing around with the Minix source, you are probably wasting your money. This book may be 900+ pages, but the back 400 pages are a (reduced) listing of the Minix source code, and a lot of the main text is special sections that walk through this source code, describing how it works. This means that, in the end, you have about 250 pages of actual operating system text.
This is definitely a well written book, and the coverage of the trade-offs that an OS designer must make are very insightful, but if you don't plan on hacking Minix, you should probably look elsewhere.

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Well coverage for fundamental OS design

ByAbramanon February 24, 2001

Format: Hardcover

First there was Unix, then Minix , now Linux. Before Unix became a proprietary OS, its source code was available freely, hence the codes were used by many OS courses in colleges. Then things changed and the source code is no longer free. OS books will only present theories but not enough source code to show the implementation. This book is different. The authors took an extra initiative to create Minix which implements many features of Unix (and Linux) and include it into this book. I believe that this is a very good book to study OS in depth. It is reasonable that some mind stretching is needed as the subject of OS is sophisticated and complex. Highly recommended especially for Linux and Unix devotees.

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Great Book and Source Code Complete Introduction to OS

Byws__on August 7, 2002

Format: Hardcover

This is another of Tannenbaums great books. It is delightful to read his books. It deepens your understanding and gives you a feeling of happiness at the same time.
Specifically this book contains the entire source code of an OS (Minix THE predecessor of LINUX). It is complete and thoroughly explained. The source code is in C and sometimes in Assembler. Especially the Assembler parts are hard to grasp. The C code is sometimes very lucid sometimes I simply got lost. So I just stuck to the main text.

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The book with real source codes in it

ByAmazon Customeron July 12, 2000

Format: Hardcover

This is a good book to begin with on the subject of operating systems. I always wanted to look at an operating systems source code upclose, with a good explanation of whats going on, and this book has around 30,000 lines of it with comments. I hope the authors will come out with another book on the the init process and a few other services. I had a couple of laughs reading the book.

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Reading for the self-educated

ByA customeron March 23, 2000

Format: Hardcover

This book is good, rather good if you are interested in a good mix of theory and implementation. I'm self taught in this area, and still yet to go to college. I think my background provides me with a disadvantage as I tend to lack good guidance, however this book tends to compensate for this. I really feel this book is superior to others beacuse it tends to be a self-contained work, making it much easier to understand without instuction(for example it is the only book on operating systems theory I know of which provides hardware/implemention related interupt information). In short I would highly recomend this book to any future linux/bsd kernel hacker.