Operating Systems: Principles and Practice

Nice book

The focus of the book is on "why" and the whole book and all sections are organized such that, they answer some important question. Saying the same thing in the different way, this book is not a laundry list of all-things-OS, rather a very carefully selected topics and examples that teach us something important in systems design and implementation. No doubt book is written by two elite, top-notch researchers! Reading this book always gives me joy! Very nice effort by authors!

This is more of a "breadth" than a "depth" book. It covers many of the basic concepts you'd need to know, say, for studying for an OS exam.Unlike many other books in this category, this book uses mostly contemporary examples. This is hugely important for students who simply can't relate to the 80's.If I had two wishes for this book, it would be:i) A chapter (or a section) on cache coherenceii) Better print please. Many of the pages have a tilted print and it's somewhat distracting.

brought this book for a class, yet to use itgood reference info though

This is a great book for you if you are an undergraduate cs major student or someone who does not have much background knowledge in OS. This book explain things in very approachable way such that concepts can easily be understood (even the virtual memory part!).The only downside of this book is that it does not cover topics in depth. If you are a graduate student researching in OS, you probably need other books instead of this one.

Great book, covers lots of important topics (general OS principles, virtual memory, scheduling, shared resource allocation/lock implementation/deadlock, file systems, threads/processes, unix abstractions, I/O). When the lectures were unclear, I could always fall back on this book, find exactly what I was confused about, and figure out what I needed to know. That's the sign of great writing, and a great textbook. Also, helped me ace a job interview.

Used this text book for my undergrad OS class. Was well worth reading, the authors did a great job.

I used this book for my undergraduate OS course. I also switched back and forth between this book and Tanenbaum's Modern Operating Systems (3rd ed). That helped me get a sense of what this book did well, and where it might have fallen a bit short.PROS:- This book is relatively deep, technically. I found it had more specifics on implementation than Tanenbaum's book.- It has a lot of asides that are good at giving broader context for the material. For example, in explaining a scheduling algorithm, it might spend a couple paragraphs examining possible use of the scheduling algorithm outside of operating systems.CONS:- Not always clear. Sometimes I felt caught up in the minutiae and missed the forest for the trees. Even after re-reading some passages multiple times, I wasn't quite sure I was "getting it." This is where I would swap textbooks and read Tanenbaum's coverage of the same topic.- Missing some material covered in Tanenbaum. Modern Operating Systems has several chapters dedicated to topics which aren't as thoroughly covered in Anderson's textbook. Some of the topics lacking include: multimedia OSs, OS design, and security.All in all, I think this is an alright textbook, but not a great one. It might be better as a reference or as a supplement. I'm glad I had it, but if I could only have one OS book, I'd stick with Tanenbaum's.