Operating Systems: A Systematic View (6th Edition) |
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| Title: | Operating Systems: A Systematic View (6th Edition) |
| Author: | William S. Davis
T.M. Rajkumar |
| Publisher: | Addison Wesley |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 01 May, 2004 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0321267516 / 9780321267511 |
| List Price: | $136.00 |
| You Save: | $39.48 |
| Amazon Price: | $96.52 |
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Product Description
This sixth edition provides students with an applied introduction to the principles of operating systems while guiding them through most operating systems used today. Aimed at students who are interested in using, rather than designing, computer operating systems and networks, the text is designed to show why operating systems are needed and what they do. This book takes students through the principles of OS and illustrates them with a wealth of examples.
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Customer Reviews:
• Excellent Breadth And Clarity, Organization And Details Wanting
15 May, 2006
Unlike other OS books I've seen, A Systematic View is a clearly written, concise introduction to the foundations of operating systems -- or at least the first few chapters are. As noted by other reviewers, the book doesn't know where to go after the first section -- it meanders into too-brief-to-be-useful hands-on tutorial sections for the middle portion, then moves on to touch open a few particulars with a few popular systems in a way remniscent of excerpts from a heavier text before concluding with a section on distributed computing (the bulk of which concerns remote file access via CIFS/SMB). Scattered amongst the latter half of the book are some decent portions on virtual memory and x86 architectural features.
The book would benefit greatly from having the tutorials moved to online appendices, the OS-specific analysis moved to standard appendices, and the core principles delved into more deeply. Davis and Rajkumar could also do with a few more technical proofreaders; while grammatical, spelling, and typographical errors are kept to a minimum, terminology is used oddly at best throughout the work with many of the "real-world" examples being flat-out wrong.
Reservations aside, I have not found a more approachable introductory/survey text. It's just a pity that there are so many problems with it even in the 6th edition. With a bit of work this could be a respectable upper-division text, but at the moment I can only recommend it for two-year technical/community colleges.
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• Awesome Buy
03 May, 2009
The book was great at a great price. Came new in the plastic and for half of what my college bookstore wanted. It came in the time they said it would and I am very happy with this purchase.
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• Very Well Written.
23 September, 2009
However, one should have some basic understandings before start reading this book.
You can learn everything about the main types operating systems from it .
- Amazon Customer Review
• Good Book For The Newbie
31 October, 2009
I'd purchased this book for a computer class & I have to say that I did like the book. I'll admit, it wasn't the most thrilling textbook I had to read, but it did list things pretty clearly.
The beginning of the book had some pretty basic stuff, which I already knew but I suppose that there's people out there who are even more of a newbie than I am & didn't know some of that stuff.
This is a good textbook, but I'm interested in seeing what the next edition has in comparison to this one.
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• Textbook Review
07 February, 2009
Book is exactly as stated. A+++,, Shipping was fast... Will buy from the seller next time...
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