Operating Systems: A Systematic View |
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Author:
William S. Davis,
T.M. Rajkumar
By Pearson Education
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: £54.99
Our Price: £36.36
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780321269812
ISBN: 0321269810
Label: Pearson Education
Manufacturer: Pearson Education
Number Of Pages: 688
Publication Date: 2004-06-03
Publisher: Pearson Education
Studio: Pearson Education |
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Seriously Out of date; sketchy; mediocre; overpriced, 1998-04-30
IN an era where computers change daily in major ways, especially software and operating systems, you would think that the basics at least remain constant. While mostly ture, this tome manages to introduce such topics as hardware concepts and operating system basics couched in the terms of a bygone computing era. Probable best use for this book? Propping up an antique table. (MSdos and the basic programming language, while not really taught with any thoroughness here, are espoused as major players in the computing field....) Assuming you have more than 640K of memory in either your brain or your computer, the best course of action for Operating Systems: A Sytematic View is >>null
Only book to meet its audience's needs, 1999-02-02
While this text is getting old, it is still relevant. The concepts presented are still of primary concern. It nicely takes the student thru a simple OS and thru complex ones, e.g. UNIX and IBM's MVS, to introduce virtual memory, paging, scheduling, resource contention, and so forth. And, the student does not need 3 years of CS courses to get thru the book. For a 2 year course, or for those needing to know about Operating systems, but not the "gory" details of coding them, this is an excellent work. I have been teaching with it since the second edition. It took a long time to find a book like this. The student workbook is an excellent addition as well.
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