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Operating System Concepts, 5th Edition 5th Edition

by Abraham Silberschatz (Author), Bill Zorbrist (Author), Peter Galvin (Author)

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The latest edition of this bestselling book provides a solid theoretical foundation for understanding operating systems. Authors Abraham Silberschatz and Peter Galvin discuss key concepts that are applicable to a variety of systems. They also present a large number of examples from common operating systems, including Windows and Solaris 2. Two case studies illustrate Windows NT and Linux. Chapters on Memory Management, Virtual Memory, Network Structures, and Security have been updated significantly.

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Very good start for O/S's

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2002

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This book attempts to be a generic introduction to operating systems, and therefore never really gets super deep. It covers most of the basic tenents of how the O/S works, but generally demonstrates trivial solutions while only hinting at how real production systems handle the problems raised, but hey, this is an intro text. The first few chapters did seem more indepth to me, but it could just be that I had a fairly high understanding of the material by the time I reached the end. I do think it could have better illustrated the differences between Windows and the various *nix's, but it tried, and there was not an obvious bios for or against any particular O/S.

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Kevin J. Schmidt

Accessible treatment of complex topics

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2005

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This book does a great job of presenting all details of operating system design and operation. When appropriate, the authors point out how Linux, Solaris or Windows implements a given topic. This is valuable for software developers who work on these platform and need to understand how the scheduler is going to react if you spawn new threads/processes.

The one bad thing I can say is that some examples are too general and do not convey the proper detail. This is just a minor distraction and does not take away from the book's overall effectiveness.

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Not a very good book. Had to buy it for a class.

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2006

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Not a very good book. Had to buy it for a class.

Great Fundamentals of OS Book

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2004

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Good book for learning OS principles for undergrad and lower grad students. I recommend this for hose wanting an introduction to OS Internals.

I prefer this to Modern OS by Tanenbaum.

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Excellent Attempt at Presenting Difficult Subject

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2003

This popular book was written as an introductory course to operating systems but systematically provides an extensive description of operating system concepts. The 1st half of the book is typically used for undergraduate computer science classes although the book as a whole is often required for graduate level classes.
It is assumed that readers will have some knowledge of high-level languages and general computer organization. The book does not spotlight any one particular operating system but rather presents concepts and algorithms that are common to many of the Oss that are commonly used today, including MS-DOS, Windows 2000 & NT, Linux, Sun Microsystems' Solaris 2, IBM OS/2, Apple Macintosh, and DEC VMS.
The book has 7 major parts:
1) Overview: What Operating Systems are, what they do, how they are designed, and where they came from. General history and explanations. Some discussion on hardware.
2) Process Management: How information is processed. Methods for process scheduling, interprocess communication, process synchronization, deadlock handling, and threads.
3) Storage Management: How main memory functions and executes. The mechanisms for storage of and access to data is covered. The classic internal algorithms and structures of storage management is discussed and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
4) I/0 Systems: The types of devices that attach to a computer. How the devices are accessed and controlled. Performance issues and examined thoroughly.
5) Distributed systems: The collection of processors that do not share a clock or memory. How distributed file systems are shared, synchronized, communicate, and deal with deadlocks.
6) Protection and Security: How mechanisms ensure that only certain processes that have obtained proper authorization can use certain files, memory segments, CPU, etc.
7) Case Studies: This is where individual real operating systems are discussed in depth. These systems are Linux, Windows 2000, FreeBSD, Mach, and Nachos.

Of course this is a very general list and omits many other aspects of Operating Systems that are included in the book. This 887 page book does not include formal proofs but it does contain (though it would be better to have more) figures, diagrams, examples, and notes to help explain concepts.

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OK, but too general

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2000

I've taken 2 operating systems courses at 2 different universities that used different editions of this book. In both classes, the biggest benefit came from the teachers and not the text. It encapsulates concepts from every major operating system in use today, but it's too general to do anything with. You can't use this book to help you write code because everything is at such a high level. It is good as a reference point to understand operating systems concepts...hence the title :) The process and memory coverage is great, although the process synchronization chapter didn't help my understanding much. If you're interested in learning the ideas behind the nuts and bolts of operating systems (what is a process? what is a thread? what is virtual memory? how do these things work in a general sense and on different systems?), read this book. If you want to implement those nuts and bolts (how would I implement this in my OS environment?), this book by itself won't help you much.
I gave the book 3 stars because the book can confuse you if you let it. My first profesor presented the material in a very confusing way. My next profesor did a better job but it still wasnt great. If you take it for what it is, a coverage of general concepts only, it makes the reading a lot easier. That's my conclusion :)

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Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 16, 2017

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Well written book that covers the topics well. Helped on my studies.

Andreas Larsson

Interesting and covers a lot of ground

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2013

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Very interesting book, even though it's a quite old edition I don't feel as a newer book would have tought me anything more. I just had this course at my university and I used this book as reference.

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Book is falling apart

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2018

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Book is falling apart

Firat Caglar Akbulut

very good condition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 27, 2013

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this book is in a very good condition. although its a old edition, it still has some great informations. i recommend it to computer science students whose take operating systems lesson.

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