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Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

byRemzi H Arpaci-Dusseau

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Jonathan Cesari

Easy to Read; Concise

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 5, 2023

Book is excellent and a pleasure to read and work through. I got accepted into a Software Engineering Masters program but still needed to complete an Operating Systems course before starting my graduate course work.

This book was perfect to get a strong understanding of OSs before class. Thanks to the authors. Really appreciate the work they put into this!

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Nice book -- very small font

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2023

I like the book, but the font is very small for someone of my age.

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Jonathan Cesari

Easy to Read; Concise

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 5, 2023

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Book is excellent and a pleasure to read and work through. I got accepted into a Software Engineering Masters program but still needed to complete an Operating Systems course before starting my graduate course work.

This book was perfect to get a strong understanding of OSs before class. Thanks to the authors. Really appreciate the work they put into this!

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 10, 2023

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I'm a 4th year computer science student at MIT, and this is an absolutely amazing book! Covers most of what I learned about operating systems and computation structures (classes -> 6.004, 6.172, and 6.033). A must read!

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 10, 2023

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The content is great. But it will be better if it is hardcover !

Incredible, fun book - unexpected page-turner

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 14, 2023

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As a self-taught programmer and software engineer, I spent years with a voice inside my head telling me that low-level computing and systems engineering was not for me. This is the first book that I've been able to dive into and truly understand. I was impressed at how concise and clear the explanations are; the author's tone and light humor makes reading this fun. After just a few days with the book, I'm already 1/3rd of the way through.

It really says something when a book on operating systems is a page-turner. If you're a programmer or engineer wanting to fill in the missing gaps in your knowledge, I highly recommend this.

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The only book you need

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 3, 2023

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If you are studying operating systems or have even a passing interest in POSIX, this is the book for you. Perfectly explains concepts like virtualization, concurrency, process creation and handling, signals, basically anything you have ever wanted to know about operating systems.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 20, 2023

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Well written as of chapter 6. Concepts are explained well and examples are good.

Michael Griffin

Wonderfully Informative

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 20, 2022

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As a self-taught SWE, this book filled many gaps in my knowledge about operating systems. It’s obvious the authors love this subject and teach it with great care.

The sections are punctuated by student/professor dialogues to help recap the material and provide a nice break from technical exposition. Significant ideas are highlighted in “crux”/“aside” sections, and I expect these will be useful when I eventually refer back to this book in the future.

It’s a challenging topic but I got a lot out of reading this.

4 people found this helpful

Solid Overview of Operating Systems

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 3, 2021

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Overall, this is an outstanding textbook. The authors write with clarity and assess various aspects of their topic with the right level of detail. The book feels like it was thoughtfully arranged and refers to its own organization in a way that makes the reader understand why the author's settled on its particular structure.

The awkward elephant in the room with this book is that its authors want very badly to be funny, I guess as a tool for being more approachable? The book is littered with truly bad jokes and "dialogues" that add nothing positive to the experience of the textbook. You will absolutely enjoy this book more if you skip the footnotes and dialogues. The dialogues are also alienating for adult self-study readers who arrive at this textbook by way of 'Teach Yourself CS', because they all assume that the reader is a college student.

6 people found this helpful

Nice book -- very small font

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2023

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I like the book, but the font is very small for someone of my age.

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Easy to understand for beginners to CS.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 26, 2022

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I needed to get a more fundamental CS understanding of Operating systems, computer memory, and processing basics. This book has delivered. I was referred to this book by teachyourselfcs.com . I’m very satisfied I came across both!

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