On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:19:39AM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:54:01AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
> > > In any case, I hope I did indicate that I have less experience than many
> > > list posters with threads (although I hope to gain at least a bit more
> > > when I take an operating systems course at my uni as soon as next fall).
> > > If anything I said in the previous paragraph is rubbish, I'm quite
> > > willing to believe it.
> >
> > For those without the benefit of a University course, I would suggest picking
> > up one of the oldest classical texts on OS design principles and practice,
> > though I suggest reading it with a critical eye:
> >
> > Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Second Edition
> > Tannebaum, A. S. & Woodhull, A. S.
> > (Prentice Hall, 1997)
>
> According to the course syllabus for this year's edition of the course,
> there is a "draft of the course textbook" available online, and they
> recommend but don't require another book by Tanenbaum (whose name they
> spell with no doubled N), which is _Modern Operating Systems_, Second
> Edition, by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, 2001. Some or all of the
> course textbook (written by the professor, no less) is online, but I'm
> not going to post a link on this mailing list because I don't know if
> the professor wants it to be generally available to the world at large.
> (If he doesn't want that, then he especially wouldn't want a link that's
> permanently and publically archived on many sites and quite findable via
> Google.) It's supposed to be a really intense course, wherein you write
> threads implementations, a simple VFS, a simple filesystem to work with
> the VFS, etc., and it's amazingly intense if you take the additional
> "half-credit" lab section where you write a large portion of a
> simplified *NIX-like OS called Weenix. ;-) Here's to hoping I have my
> study skills refined by then....
Given what I can see in various references, _Modern Operating Systems_ is
basically the same as OSD&I, but without the Minix source code (and, of
course, references to it).
However, the fact that it remains a primary coursebook today, and was a
primary coursebook more than a decade ago, should say something about it's
nature, given the changes in code that have occured since - to wit, that
the fundamentals haven't much changed.
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Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org> ,''`.
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