Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles

This book on operating systems compares a few operating systems, and Windows NT is taken as model. It does not go too much in depth technically, so it is easy to read and understand. The topic of memory management, virtual memory, and scheduling is also covered in this book; topics not easily found elsewhere all in one book.

I have not seen the like of this book. It was used as the text for an operating system course I took last winter. It covers all you need to know about operating system concepts. The numerous examples included couldn't have been explained in any better way. The approach from the first page to the last page makes you to always want to read more. It was so written in an interesting manner that you can never read a chapter in half. The references are very informative and provide links to other sources of valuable information. The book includes a good comparison of certain concepts in Windows and Unix Operating systems. The questions at the end of each chapter were tough though, with little or no hints, but nonetheless I will greatly recommend it for anybody taking any class in operating systems.

I just finished grad school in Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I borrowed this book from my Professor and after reading it for a while I am now buying it to use as a reference on the job. I can state quite confidently that it is one of the best OS books I have read. I strongly recommend this book for university coursework, particularly at the undergraduate level.

I read this text in an Operating Systems class at the University of Phoenix. I liked the "bad" examples which were faulted by another reviewer, just as much as I liked the "good" examples. The "bad" examples show different approaches to solving the same problem, while showing the difficulty one might encounter while attempting to solve the problem that way.My conclusion: if you are interested in the "bottom line" or "right answer," this book contains a lot of extraneous information. If you are interested in the hows and whys of current practice, this book is probably for you.

This was used as the text for an operating systems class I took at U of Missouri, St. Louis. I found it very good with many tables and diagrams. Many chapters discuss how concepts were implemented in specific OSes such as UNIX, NT, and VMS so you get some familiarity with modern systems. Excercises at the end of each chapter are good but no answer key!