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Operating System Concepts, Seventh Edition |
Author: Abraham Silberschatz
Published: 2004-12-14 |
List price: $54.99
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As of: September 09th, 2010 04:52:18 AM
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Not worth money and time
Being a computer science student, I had a previous version of this book as a textbook since in college several years ago. I found my lecturer gave more information than the textbook provided in some topics, thus reading the book after class makes non-sense.
Recently I read the book of this version for the phd's advanced operating system class. Again I find this book famous only for it's a mostly-adopted textbook. A big problem of this book is that it covers too many topics to provide insight on each problem, sometimes no further explanation given. Therefore students can't fully understand each problem through reading the book.
As it's an introductory textbook, I agree that this book provides comprehensive topics of operating systems, but not for advanced study. I am not sure it is a good introductory but you definitely need to search for other materials for deeper discussion per topic.
One of my least favorites
I'm using this book in a graduate level computer science course, and find this book to be the most boring textbook I have ever had the misfortune of reading. The wording in this textbook is very dry and uninteresting, and the author makes no attempt to keep the reader's interest in the materials he is presenting. The only positive I can say, is that I got this book used off of Amazon for only six dollars, and it arrived in almost brand new condition.
 Operating Systen Concept Book
I ordered this book online but no option was available for express delivery. The standard delivery which was available was thus utilized and the item received within the stipulated delivery estimate (three weeks).
Overall the experince was fine but I would have preffered an option for express delivery which did not appear from the sellers' delivery method.
 Operating System Concepts
Great read. Anyone who wants to dive into the basics of kernel programming should read this book. There is a good set of practice problems, but personally I found the writing done well enough so that I did not need the extra practice. In addition, the writers have a sense of humor and make the reading fun, rather than a listing of computer facts like other books.
Good book.
Good OS txt
Very helpful in understanding basic concepts. Examples is what makes this text stand out, with plenty of examples, and a good website to view source code
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