Tanenbaum v Silberschatz

Tanenbaum v Silberschatz

Post by stacktrac » Tue, 29 Apr 2003 03:38:37



I'm interested in getting either Tanenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems" or
Silberschatz' "Operating System Concepts".

Does anyone have a preference of one over the other?  If so, why?  Or
perhaps there's a better third option?

Regards,

stacktrace

 
 
 

Tanenbaum v Silberschatz

Post by Henriq » Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:20:03



> I'm interested in getting either Tanenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems" or
> Silberschatz' "Operating System Concepts".

> Does anyone have a preference of one over the other?  If so, why?  Or
> perhaps there's a better third option?

 I don't know about Silberschatz's book , but i have the tanenbaum. It
is a very good book, but you must be able to understand C source
codes. If you like programming it is the book for you, but if you only
want to know the concepts behind a OS, maybe , it is not the best
choise.

 
 
 

Tanenbaum v Silberschatz

Post by MJ Ra » Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:03:42



> I'm interested in getting either Tanenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems" or
> Silberschatz' "Operating System Concepts".

Damnit, after the subject line I was expecting a flamewar to read.
 
 
 

Tanenbaum v Silberschatz

Post by Douglas Clinto » Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:11:13



> I'm interested in getting either Tanenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems" or
> Silberschatz' "Operating System Concepts".

> Does anyone have a preference of one over the other?  If so, why?  Or
> perhaps there's a better third option?

> Regards,

> stacktrace

Silberschatz's fine book "Operating System Concepts" uses pseudo-code to
explain concepts and is generally superior.

--
GNU/Linux is God
get used to it

 
 
 

Tanenbaum v Silberschatz

Post by stacktrac » Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:18:35


Thanks for the info guys.  Much appreciated.

stacktrace

 
 
 

1. Great Flamewars of Our Time - Tanenbaum vs. Torvalds

Hi,

I'v been coming back to this from time to time so I thought
I'd index it for easier reading:

   http://www.lh.umu.se/~bjorn/mhonarc-files/obsolete/

This is from the very beginning of linux when discussions
was still taking place in comp.os.minix.  And discussion
it was! A few quotes out of context:

Linus, still a simple student:
   "Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one
    hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix.
    I can only hope (and assume) that Amoeba doesn't suck like
    minix does."

Andy, used to taking care of them:
   "Writing a new OS only for the 386 in 1991 gets you your second
    'F' for this term.  But if you do real well on the final exam,
    you can still pass the course."

Aiiee!

But the really interesting question is about this message from Ken
Thompson:

    http://www.lh.umu.se/~bjorn/mhonarc-files/obsolete/msg00015.html

Is this  Ken Thompson possibly *the* Ken Thompson?! :)
Also, the article is cut in half. Anyone have the first part?

/Bjorn

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