Product: 0201187604

This book is an excellent general survey of operating systems concepts. At 941 pages, it packs a lot into those pages.

Apart from a good historical survey of most important issues over 64 years of operating system conceptual history since general purpose commercial computers emerged from the shadows of world war two, it could be criticised as only dealing in depth with Linux and Windows. Older important sophisticated operating systems such as VMS are mentioned with in almost no depth.

Unpaid Linux programmers looking for good ideas for reuse may have to look to older and other works if looking for ideas of over twenty years standing to reimplement as out-of-patent.

It misdescribes the MS-DOS program loader as an operating system. But what features does an operating system require at a minimum? A very good question for any student of computer science! Read, enjoy, think and consider! And to get more depth on specific topics of operating system theory, other works will have to be sought out and referenced …
Rating: 4
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