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Re: suggestion on distributed systems

2006-01-23 09:47:04

"Operating Systems, Design and Implementation" by
Andrew S. Tannanbaum and Albert S. Woodhull,
ISBN 0-13-638677-6 Prentice Hall

Not only do the discuss every aspect of an operating system but
they include as an example and for homework practice the complete
Minix operating system plus source.

It hardly discusses _every_ aspect of an operating system; a lot is
left out (presumably the stuff with which Tannebaum was unfamiliar).

Nonsense.  Tanenbaum has forgotten more about operating systems than 
most of us will ever know.  But when you teach a subject, especially at 
the introductory level -- I'm teaching operating systems right now, 
using Tanenbaum's text -- you have to abstract out certain details and 
omit some others entirely.  

                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb



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