Operating Systems Design and Implementation 3e

It should be on every programmer's bookshelf, the source code was fun to play around with, and taught me about unix what most linux books couldn't. Also a great OS design book. Tanenbaum is definitely one of my favourite authors.

If you guys want to do some thing practical and how actually a software can be interact with the hardware practically go for this .

Very good explanation and beginner its very good

Overall product quality is good. Although the entire book content is completely theoretical, still most of the concepts related to OS are covered. But mostly theoretical content will be there and you cannot expect much numerical problems or program snippets. However, last 400 pages (out of 1000 pages in total) is completely filled with "THE MINIX SOURCE CODE", with 28,000 lines of code in total, covering one third of the book. If you can find the same online, no point in having the script occupying one third of the book.Explanations are clear and illustrations are available for better understanding.

This is one of the best introuductory texts on operating systems. The language is very simple and easy to read and understand. If you are planning to understand operating systems then this is where you must start.

good

Its written by the creator for MINIX guys. If you prefer microkernel, you really wanna study it over the normal kernel, go for it.its so detailed, and written in an easy way, we can easily understand it.

great book with practical implementation

Il professor Tanenbaum è una garanzia. Testo completo, esaustivo; ricco di riferimenti bibliografici nei punti in cui la trattazione dell'argomento, vastissimo, viene necessariamente ridotta a qualche accenno. Riesce persino, qua e là, a essere spiritoso. L'esposizione in qualche punto è un po' meno scorrevole, ma glielo si perdona. L'impostazione complessiva è ottima: trattazione progressiva ma composta di argomenti perlopiù indipendenti, che facilitano uno studio anche non lineare del testo. Per chi vuole avere una prospettiva di quel che accade "sotto il cofano" di un sistema operativo, questo libro è straordinario. Con il suo approccio a metà strada tra il teorico e il pratico, guida lo studente alla scoperta del kernel Minix, un sistema operativo Unix like caratterizzato da un'architettura al tempo stesso robusta, elegante e facile da studiare. Consigliatissimo.

Tanenbaum’s 3rd edition of Operating Systems Design & Implementation is still one of the best books on operating systems available. It provides a detailed description of the unix-like system, MINIX 3. In addition to the theory of how operating systems function and the types of problems that can arise it provides most of the source code for the OS. The newest version of MINIX available (R3.4.0rc6) installed nicely on my laptop (Thinkpad W520) running Windows 10 within VirtualBox 6. Ported NetBSD software runs on top of the MINIX kernel. This is a great book for learning about operating systems.

I really loved the book about operating system design. Though today only 2 main OSes exists (BSDs left aside), this book explains practically an OS design idea which should be implemented, but never was put in practice. It gives again (an old) but fresh look on OS design. In these days of cloud the micro-architecture could create a new live in cloud OSes.

Es un libro excelente, aunque esta en ingles pero es necesario tener este libro ya que es uno de los mejores si no el mejor para entender el mundo de los sistemas operativos. Altamente recomendable.

Great book, highly recommend.The prerequisites, in my opinion, for reading this book is a basic knowledge of C and assembly, particularly, if you want to read through the source code in the back of the book. However, the book does such a phenomenal job in explaining everything within the text that it is not necessary to read through the source code. All parts of the text contain references to the actual source code, specifying line numbers of the source code, which makes it easy to read a paragraph, see its implementation in source code, read the next paragraph/pages, etc.This book is specific to Minix 3 which is a microkernel OS, contrasting it with Linux & Windows, for example, which are monolithic/hybrid OSs. Minix 3, as presented in this book, is also simplified by being single-threaded.A CD comes with it which contains the Minix 3 OS for use.I had previously read Modern Operating Systems & Computer Networks by the same author. This is a very good author and I very highly recommend his books.I wish this author would write a book on virtualization as well.