false 2713140 6 <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> 2738686 1992 Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (Second Edition) total:9|5:2|4:3|3:3|2:1| 9 33 20 2 0 0 false false Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 10:01:22 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 10:02:08 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Oct 23 22:26:32 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 21 20:05:57 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 23 22:26:32 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jul 11 12:15:06 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 12:15:15 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jun 27 15:35:10 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 15:35:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 02 13:52:31 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 13:52:31 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Mar 02 20:39:46 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 20:39:46 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 31 15:16:32 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 15:16:32 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jan 19 08:27:37 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 08:27:37 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 18:12:15 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 18:12:15 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 20 02:13:05 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 02:13:05 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Oct 17 16:24:08 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 16:24:08 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Mon Oct 13 14:59:34 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 14:59:34 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Sep 07 11:02:53 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 11:02:53 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Wed Sep 03 17:15:14 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 17:15:14 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon Aug 04 23:36:35 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 23:36:35 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Aug 04 20:53:31 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 20:53:31 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jul 12 09:08:49 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 09:08:49 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jun 16 18:06:25 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 18:06:25 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Dec 20 13:29:44 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 20 13:29:47 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Mon Jul 02 13:28:29 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 02 13:28:29 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2713140