Great OS concepts and design reference
This was the text used in the Operating Systems course when I was in undergrad at Wisconsin. It was a useful reference for my projects including a CPU scheduler, file system implementation, caching algorithms, etc. It's more conceptual, which I like--it's more important to truely understand the concepts and I think that once you have that, the implementation is often the easy part.
This book was also instrumental in my understanding of synchronization and multi-threaded programming.
Ho hum yawn
Perhaps it is my short attention span or my lack of interest in this book, but I felt the information in this book was puffed up with alot of technical jargon and not much consistency.
Using multi-threading classes was a good idea, but how it was explained was boring and shuffled throughout the book.
Fairly good delivery time
I bought a used book that is still in good shape. The delivery time was also fair.
OS Time
Please, it's a book on operating systems with a flippin dinosaur on the cover. Actually not a bad book, though in reality, I did feel like a retard reading something with a dinosaur theme throughout the book. Then again, I feel like a retard most days.
If you take a class...
That uses this as it's text, be worried. The book is decent, but definitely just "concepts," no intensive knowledge is conveyed in it's pages. Oh well.
