Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!inmet!bwhite From: bwhite@inmet.inmet.com Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Can you recommend a good OS book? Message-ID: <25200001@inmet> Date: 25 Jun 91 19:20:00 GMT References: <45146@<1991Jun21> Lines: 37 Nf-ID: #R:<1991Jun21:45146:inmet:25200001:000:1264 Nf-From: inmet.inmet.com!bwhite Jun 25 15:20:00 1991 When I taught Operating Systems in the recent past I used this book: Operating Systems - Concepts and Design Milan Milenkovic McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-070041920-5 I was very pleased with its general coverage. It is not an advanced operating systems book by any means, but it is a good introduction. It is much more clearly written and thought out than Deitel's book, and slightly more comprehensive than Peterson and Silberschatz. A somewhat more advanced, and also very well written book is: Lubomir Bic and Alan C. Shaw The Logical Design of Operating Systems Second Edition Prentice-Hall ISBN 0-13-540139-9 This is the second edition of a classic introduction to Operating Systems. It is probably too advanced for a first time through, but it is well worth the investment for talented or experienced undergraduates, or for a practitioner looking to brush up. The best Operating Systems book I own is still A.N. Habermann Introduction to Operating System Design Science Research Associates, Inc. Computer Science Series ISBN 0-547-21075-X It's probably out of print, and certainly dated, but the topics that it covers it explains better than any of the ones I have seen. Peace, Bill White