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Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition) 3rd Edition

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The widely anticipated revision of this worldwide best-seller incorporates the latest developments in operating systems technologies. The Third Edition includes up-to-date materials on relevant operating systems such as Linux, Windows, and embedded real-time and multimedia systems. Includes new and updated coverage of multimedia operating systems, multiprocessors, virtual machines, and antivirus software. Covers internal workings of Windows Vista (Ch. 11); unique even for current publications. Provides information on current research based Tanenbaum’s experiences as an operating systems researcher. A useful reference for programmers.

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  1. ISBN-10
    0136006639
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0136006633
  3. Edition
    3rd
  4. Publisher
    Pearson
  5. Publication date
    December 21, 2007
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7.4 x 1.6 x 9.4 inches
  8. Print length
    1104 pages
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About the Author

Andrew S. Tanenbaum has an S.B. degree from M.I.T. and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he is head of the Computer Systems Department. He is also the Dean of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, an interuniversity graduate school doing research on advanced parallel, distributed, and imaging systems. Nevertheless, he is trying very hard to avoid turning into a bureaucrat.

In the past, he has done research on compilers, operating systems, networking, and local-area distributed systems. His current research focuses primarily on the design of wide-area distributed systems that scale to a billion users. This research is being done together with Dr. Maarten van Steen. Together, all his research projects have led to over 90 refereed papers in journals and conference proceedings and five books.

Prof. Tanenbaum has also produced a considerable volume of software. He was the principal architect of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit, a widely-used toolkit for writing portable compilers, as well as of MINIX, a small UNIX clone intended for use in student programming labs. Together with his Ph.D. students and programmers, he helped design the Amoeba distributed operating system, a high-performance microkernel-based distributed operating system. The MINIX and Amoeba systems are now available for free via the Internet.

His Ph.D. students have gone on to greater glory after getting their degrees. He is very proud of them. In this respect he resembles a mother hen.

Prof. Tanenbaum is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, winner of the 1994 ACM Karl V Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and winner of the 1997 ACM/SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education. He is also listed in Who's Who in the World. His home page on the World Wide Web can be found at URL http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/ .

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson; 3rd edition (December 21, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1104 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0136006639
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0136006633
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.87 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 1.6 x 9.4 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Jim Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable Read from One of the Most Qualified Authors in the Business
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2012
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum is certainly qualified to write a book on Operating Systems, as he wrote one of (if not the) first open source operating system, called Minix. It is not widely known that Minix was actually the inspiration for Linus Torvalds to write Linux. Despite having a different philosophy in the best design of OSes, Prof. Tanenbaum is quite fair and objective in comparing other designs. For example, Prof. Tanenbaum clearly prefers the Microkernel design to the Monolithic kernel, but he covers the pros and cons of each.

This book was required for my University course "Computer Operating Systems," but I found it to be a very interesting read. I think I learned more practical knowledge from this book than from any other course I took for my Computer Science degree, except for maybe Programming Concepts. I highly recommend this book, although to be honest the price is a little high. I don't think you'll be disappointed if you do buy this, but if I hadn't have been forced I probably would have looked for something around $30 instead.
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Josh MacMillan
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, Great Quality
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2013
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While I was very upset with Amazon for not initially delivering the product -- I had contacted them two days after it was "guaranteed" to be delivered, and then had to wait for the shipment to be sent out "again" -- I received the product swiftly the second time. The book came in perfect condition, and it is a fantastic book. This is one of those "must read" books for computer science students.
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Steven Liao
4.0 out of 5 stars Suggested first OS book,smooth and enlightening reading experience
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2012
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I bought the book two years ago but started to really delve into it recently,
pros:
1.author is really a pro in computer area and knows a bunch of fields including hardware,software and can pick analogy from other fields,other than OS to help your understanding.
2.as one Chinese,it is quite important for the author use a standard English writing style,as I find in this book.
3.force you to think,not to remember.it talks a concept from scratch,which I mean it starts from simple solution and phrase why it will not work.And it talks about the pros and cons of different solutions.
4.As one computer engineering student,I find some hardware implementation details to be totally useful.OS is tightly related to hardware,so it is also natural to deviate from OS to talk about some hardware.

cons:
1.sometimes too many legacy solutions show up and you have to pick some that catch you most.
eg.paging replacement algorithm:
author talks about a bunch of solutions but I can only remember a few of them,so it is better for the reader to do some preview before reading a long parallel section otherwise you will be mind-numbed.

overall one of the few best computer science books I've read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars much better than the book by Silberschatz
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2012
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As a computer science student I wasted a lot of time on
Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin and Greg Gagne.
If you have a choice buy Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. It is much better written.
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xiaoou li
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent quality, just like a new book
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2014
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Excellent quality, just like a new book!!! The most worth book I have ever bought!!! And the "Thank you : D" signature on the package is just so cute~!
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Greg
2.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this book unless you absolutely have to...
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2014
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This book is not well-written, but is from a respected leader in the field of OS design. It desperately needs to be updated to the current times and cover modern operating systems like Android, Windows 7 (well, now 8). I had to buy it for a class in Operating Systems and continually found the book to just lacking in many ways. If I had bought this book on my own, I'd be terribly disappointed in it.

Many of my technical textbooks I choose to keep instead of selling them back because I see value in having them on my shelf. This book is NOT among those.
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Abdoulaye Alhassane
5.0 out of 5 stars is good
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2019
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this is good
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Glo
1.0 out of 5 stars Book is terrible
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2014
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This book is hard to read and understand. A lot of the questions at the end of every chapter are so off the wall. You can't find the answers in the book. Seriously, I can't tell you how many times it says "Write a program" and this is NOT a programming book!
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Alexandre Fortin
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in Canada on October 6, 2015
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A liitle outdated but still good. Go for the 4th edition.
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Ramses
5.0 out of 5 stars top class
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 18, 2008
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Should it be forbidden to have morons submit reviews on Amazon ? How can those reviewers write that Tanenbaum's explanations are stupid ? Anyway, Tanenbaum has written a series of perfect books on computers, from structured organisations to operating systems to networks etc ... No one can explain better. Must have book if interested in the topic and need to learn a lot from scratch.
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António Pós-de-Mina
5.0 out of 5 stars Bible of students and profesionals about operating systems
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 25, 2014
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This is the most complet book of theory of operating systems! With that do you realy understand what is a operating systems and how it works. For students of IT is very recomendend. For IT profesionals is a good reference to hunderstand some works daily problema and how do you resolve that.
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