Book Description
This book covers concepts, structure, and mechanisms of operating systems. Stallings presents the nature and characteristics of modern-day operating systems clearly and completely.
Includes major programming projects. Offers step-by-step web support with CD/Rom Resources.
A basic reference for those interested in learning more about operating systems; also suitable for self-study.
Customer Reviews:
A Good Reference Book.......2007-06-02
This book serves as a good reference, as it contains just about every topic related to operating systems. Like an encyclopedia, however, this is not a book that you want to read cover to cover. While all the material is there, it is not necessarily in any logical order and the material is presented in an extremely dry but straight-forward manner. I found other operating system texts, such as Tanenbaum, to be better for tutorial-style learning. But as a reference text, this book can't be beat.
cyber kid.......2006-09-13
My Operating Systems course used this book and we were assigned chapters that did not coincide. Lack of editing, and no source code for process and child process creation, nor thread or how a thread can spawn another thread. This book is incredibly disappointing. This book does not read well at all.
I would recommend Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz (updated for Windows XP)good for a college course.
Good, solid, but not Stallings' best book........2006-06-20
I've just finished using this book for a course and I wanted to write a review while the information was still fresh in my mind. However because mine looks to be the only positive review I will probably fall into the trap of rebutting some of the other reviews.
First of all, I usually rate Stallings' books at 5 stars - they've taught me a lot. While this one isn't his best, it's nothing to sneeze at, and better than most texts on similar subjects. The writing is drier than his other texts, but it's fairly concise and very clear, difficult to achieve with such a technical subjct matter!
One reviewer complained that it was difficult to read through in one go - well what do you expect from a book about low-level operating system architecture, it's not Agatha Christie! I found it easy to follow, learn and summarise the concepts, the questions and problems were mostly relevant (and there were a lot, so choosing a subset wasn't hard) and mostly it was pretty interesting (if you happen to like this sort of stuff).
It's one fault is it fails to cover specific coding techniques and examples on an implementation level. However since this would have to be platform- or environment-specific, that's probably on purpose. I would guess most courses would have seperate course material covering implementation, depending on what environment they were interested in or was available.
All in all it's a good book and it'll help you learn stuff. That's the point right?
Reality check time..........2006-05-29
I always end up writing these reviews with some trepidation... Am I out to convince people to buy stuff or not to buy stuff?
What is the value of reading this if it doesn't express clearly buy or not buy? Is this product worth X dollars or not?
The answer, I think, is always up to the buyer.
All I can do is brief you on my experience with the product, like this book. Most of the reviewers here have given it thumbs down and I understand some of their points.
I had to use this book because of my schools decision...
It is not a waste as others might have you believe.
First of all, it was excellent for exam preparation. The review questions and the vocabulary check at the end of each chapter made it a quick search and find for last minute cramming.
Further, it is written with the student in mind and that translates into pages full of very valuable info packets, easy to retrieve and reuse.
I also found this book helpful for a paper on the EROS OS and that wasn't quite as cut and dried as it sounds since the author is Windows, UNIX, and LINUX centric.
Can it be improved ? No doubt.
Is it too expensive ? Yes, but then all text books are.
Bottom line: It can be an asset to your library, depending on your particular needs. It is a good beginning text for understanding Operating Systems.
I cannot believe this man is a graduate of M.I.T........2005-12-13
Its is by far the worst written textbook I have ever used. While the book touches on almost every type of OS design, it does so hap-hazardly, and without explaining why those designs were chosen. In short, Dr. Stallings writing style could use some improvement. The book is filled with wordy, redundant sentences, and pointless filler in almost every paragraph. What's worse, the book misuses list and figures - many lists have over 10 bullets (generally with a few paragraphs of explanation under them), and most of the figures are over annotated, and look too similar. Why bother to make list and figures if they must be explain by paragraph after paragraph of poorly worded pros?
...And it gets worse! Thought-out the whole book, Dr. Stallings fails to provide even one snippet of compliable code. The book rarely mentions how an OS designer would go about implementing his or her ideas, even though OS design is decidedly low-level - details are probably just as important as overall design for OSes.
Finally, the homework has nothing to do with what is covered in the book, and is horribly worded to boot. In one question, Stallings ask readers to ". describe exactly, in general..." How do I describe something exactly while keeping it general? This isn't the only question that leaves readers scratching their heads, in fact, I would say that no question is to the point, and manages to express what it is really asking.
Book Description
Blending up-to-date theory with state-of-the-art applications, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of operating systems, with an emphasis on internals and design issues. It helps readers develop a solid understanding of the key structures and mechanisms of operating systems, the types of trade-offs and decisions involved in OS design, and the context within which the operating system functions (hardware, other system programs, application programs, interactive users).
Process Description And Control. Threads, SMP, And Microkernels. Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion And Synchronization. Concurrency: Deadlock And Starvation. Memory Management. Virtual Memory. Uniprocessor Scheduling. Multiprocessor And Real-Time Scheduling. I/O Management And Disk Scheduling. File Management. Distributed Processing, Client/Server, And Clusters. Distributed Process Management. Security.
For product development personnel (Programmers, Systems Engineers, Network Designers, and others involved in the design of data communications and networking products), Product marketing personnel, and Information system and computer system personnel.
Customer Reviews:
A very good textbook.......2006-12-22
Like many other people, this book was assigned to me as a textbook for a college class. I found it to be tremendously useful, and learned far more form it than the professor. Although clearly not for a beginner, if you're serious about learning what goes into an OS, and how current OSes work on a fundamental level, this is a great reference.
Not for beginners.......2005-08-22
I am an undergraduate student in MIS, and I have to take a course in OS. This is the book the professor assigned.
I began reading the first few pages today, all the while wondering just what kind of beginning OS student would find this useful. Stallings jumps in to a detailed description of hardware components without providing a simple, "top-down" description first. The prose is wordy and, at times, unneccessarily infused with technojargon. Sometimes the author makes such great leaps in his thinking that the reader is left puzzled, at best. I got the impression when I read these few pages that Stallings intended this book to be a follow-up to a basic introduction to computer hardware learned in another course.
Bottom line: This book is probably very useful for those who have spent a good deal of time studying computers at the design level. If you're taking an OS course outside of a computer science degree program, you'll likely be confused
don't buy unless required.......2005-07-25
It's a theory book with little or no foundation on what you really need. I especially enjoyed the webpage that offers no help to a student have no other resource available. Although its a book with a comfortable read, it provides nothing more substancial to use. At one point one can actually use it as a reference for subjects that are not part of a programming language course. Please, there are other books much better than this one... unless you are required to buy the book for the course
Buy your text books from AMAZON!!!!!!!!!!!.......2004-02-29
I bought this book for my class. Since is is a text book, whatever is inside didn't matter to me. Easy to read though...
But the price and the service from AMAZON was amazing.
Don't buy your text books from campus book stores ever again.
They are the ripper-offers.
Too many nonsense for introductory book.......2004-01-12
this is the worst book that i have encounter in my life. i have been looking for a book as a supplimentary for my OS course, however this book failed to deliver to give understantable examples and teory. I agreed that this book have a lot to offer, packing with a lot of examples and illustration but none of them make me feel usefull. in other word, IT IS USELESS. What i want is a book that can give a simple way of teaching to the subject and not a book that trying to confuse the readers.
finally, i strongly not recommend this book for those who are looking a simple and easy to understand OS reference book.
this book make me feel stupid!
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This tool is essential for anyone entering an MBA program. The MBA Survival Kit is a series of programs brought to you by the Graduate Management Admission Council and McGraw Hill/Irwin. This four CD program provides an introduction to Finance, Accounting, Quantitative Skills and Statistics topics and is designed as a review for those entering an MBA program. On average each CD contains 16-20 hours of self-directed learning that explores core quantitative skills used across functional business areas within distinctly different companies, with the user assuming the role of a consultant. The programs guide the student through two key areas of learning that reinforce student skill building using video, animation and consistent feedback. The training area provides a topic overview, animations and practice for that topic. The office area contains client cases. The user, in the role of a business consultant, works through cases in a virtual office setting, to reinforce the skills learned in the training area.
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Overpriced.......2007-02-27
The CD is a good introduction to Financial Accounting. I think it's overpriced for what you get though.
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An excellent & handy resource for beginning law students!.......2001-08-30
Gilbert's Pocket Law Dictionary is a professional, succinct, and handy resource for beginning law, social studies, and government studies students. Its small, handy format makes it easy to have ready in any class, and provides professional and easy to understand definitions for the layman. There haven't been very many terms that I haven't been able to find in this professional yet affordable resource.
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