Good as a Textbook
1/13/2007
This was a required text for a college class. As a beginner in understanding how operating systems are created the first few chapters were easy to read and understand, but after that I needed the professor to be able to understand the concepts.
Not a very good one
3/11/2007
I had to buy it for the course, but I really prefer Tanenbaum books, you can find more science. Pages reflect light so you should have indirect lighting, I had difficulties reading it.
Informative, but very, very dry......
9/16/2007This book is very informative if your interested in learning how operating systems work. Unfortunately, Im not really interested in it, I just have to read it for a required class. The material is very dry so its hard to focus on what your reading.
Opearing systems concept
10/27/2007I have been using this book for my master in IT science and it has been a great help in my studies. I hardly have to go elsewhere for research; its content is very clear and very concrete. I have to say that this book has added a great value to my studies.
Somewhat interesting but flawed
5/4/2008
This book offers coverage of issues encountered in designing an operating system, but does this in a rather dry and uninteresting manner, using examples and diagrams which are somewhat contrived and confusing at times.
Its code snippets are often incorrect and shows no sign it has ever been checked for correctness. I am basing this assumption on the fact this is the 7th edition and blatant errors still exists. Errors range from syntax to logic errors, both in the explanations and code provided.
The book also does not explain certain algorithms, and merely prints them in pseudo code, then moves on with not insights into the how and why of it.
If you have no other choice, then this book will suffice as long as you take what it says with a grain of salt, and apply your own logic rather than take what the authors say as gospel.
Cheers,
Steve