From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 5 13:44:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5287D37B40B for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:44:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rshea@thecubagroup.com) Received: from sheasili (203-79-72-40.cable.paradise.net.nz [203.79.72.40]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with SMTP id 19DA01F9E45; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 08:44:20 +1200 (NZST) From: "Richard Shea" To: GoodleafJ@immunex.com Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 08:43:24 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: OT question -- Books on OS basics Reply-To: rshea@thecubagroup.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20010605191317.B8152@student.uu.se> References: ; from GoodleafJ@immunex.com on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:38:56AM -0700 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <20010605204420.19DA01F9E45@deborah.paradise.net.nz> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > "Operating System Concepts" by Abraham Silberschatz and Peter B. Galvin > might be a good place to start. I think this is quite close to what you > want. > You could also take a look at various book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum > including "Structured Computer Organization", "Distributed Operating > Systems" and "Modern Operating Systems". (Structured Comp. Org. is Could I just second that ? In particular I think Tanenbaums books are excellent in this area. The only thing you should be prepared for is that in "Modern Operating Systems" the three 'example' OS/Kernels are DOS, MACH and AMOEBA - these may seem like strange choices today (particularly DOS) although they serve the purpose of illustration. In "Operating Systems: Design And Implementation" the examples are all based around MINIX (which as you probably know is a chopped down 'unixalike' OS written by Tanenbaum specifically for teaching purposes) - nothing wrong with that but probably less interest/discourse in MINIX than there was, say, in the early 90's (the Penguin Brigade have sort of taken up where the MINIX mob left off). Anyway these are small things and shouldn't put you off. I've learnt a lot from Tanenbaums books. BTW if you are short of cash there are editions of these books available (certainly in the UK, maybe everywhere ?) specifically for student use. Paperbacks with plain red covers but the guts of the book is as good as the mainstream item and the price is a good deal less, try a college bookshop. regards richard shea. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Cuba Group PO Box 1864 Wellington New Zealand PH +64 4 496 5205 MO +64 21 296 6839 FX +64 4 496 5209 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message