false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172344739m/166193.jpg 166193 1 <P><B></B> Most books on operating systems deal with theory while ignoring practice. While the usual principles are covered in detail, the book describes a small, but real UNIX-like operating system: MINIX. The book demonstrates how it works while illustrating the principles behind it. <B></B> <I>Operating Systems: Design and Implementation Second Edition</I> provides the MINIX source code. The relevant selections of the MINIX code are described in detail. When it first came out, MINIX caused something of a revolution. Within weeks, it had its own newsgroup on USENET, with 40,000 people. Most wanted to make MINIX bigger and fancier. Instead, Linux was created. That has become quite popular, very large, and complicated. MINIX, on the other hand, has remained small and suitable for instruction and example. The book has been revised to include updates in MINIX, which started out as a v 7 unix clone for a floppy-disk only 8088. It is now aimed at 386, 486, and pentium machines and is based on the international posix standard instead of on v7. There are now also versions of MINIX for the Macintosh and SPARC available. <B></B> Professional programmers will find this book to be a valuable resource and reference book. </P> 160479 14 1 2006 Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition) (Prentice Hall Software Series) total:19|5:1|4:0|3:1|2:0|1:0| 19 75 39 3 4 0 false false Thu Sep 17 09:24:50 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 09:18:21 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 09:24:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu May 29 22:04:42 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 22:06:42 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Oct 09 02:29:19 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 02:29:53 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Nov 14 23:42:55 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 23:43:04 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 09 04:36:06 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 10 03:10:23 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 14:06:10 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 14:06:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 26 09:17:28 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 09:17:28 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jun 05 13:38:49 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 13:38:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 10 08:22:29 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 08:22:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 28 19:52:15 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 19:52:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 22 07:54:54 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 07:54:54 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Mar 15 09:40:54 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 09:40:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jan 28 11:49:29 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 11:49:37 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jan 21 04:04:17 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 04:04:19 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jan 06 20:16:54 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 20:16:54 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jan 06 09:08:15 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 23 13:22:15 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Dec 21 22:04:21 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 24 22:32:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Dec 12 13:21:05 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 13:21:17 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sat Nov 29 00:02:36 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 00:02:36 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Sep 28 11:40:17 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 11:40:17 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=166193