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From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne)
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Subject: Re: Can you recommend a good OS book?
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.002834.27384@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 00:28:34 GMT
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In article <1991Jun24.193409.3382@bmers145.bnr.ca> jasonc@bmerh653.bnr.ca (Jason Chen) writes:
[...]
>	Deitel's book is pretty good as a 2nd yesr OS course text, and it
>does cover UNIX as a case study (in a very basic way).  The dinosaur book
>is very much same as Deitel's book, it also covers UNIX.  There is a book
>called "The logical Desgin of Operating System" by Shaw(?), it's also one
>of those 2nd year OS course text.  All these gives general coverage on 
>OS construction technics.

"The logical Desgin of Operating Systems" is by Bic and Shaw.  I used it in
a 400-level OS class (I think the only UofM OS classes are 107 (intro to
Unix), 412 (Write a simple OS for a IBM PC), and 415 (Read lots of cool OS
papers); 412 is useful, 415 is just plain fun).

I learned more from the Bic and Shaw book then the BSD book (this may just
be because I knew how Unix worked, and read *tons* of papers on it before I
got my copy of the BSD book).  They cover types of IPC and locking that are
not implmented in Unix.  Same for some other topics.  Intresting stuff.
They also payed alot more attention to multiple processers (since BSD doesn't
run on any MPs [just BSD derived systems] I didn't expect the BSD book to say
much).
-- 
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