Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction

by Jerome H. Saltzer, M. Frans Kaashoek

This text identifies, examines, and illustrates fundamental concepts in computer system design that are common across operating systems, networks, database systems, distributed systems, programming languages, software engineering, security, fault toleranc

Genres: Computer Science, Textbooks, Software, Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Programming, Computers

560 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Fatima · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read some chapters as part of CS110 at Stanford.
I learned a lot but it is very dry and required me to read and re-read the chapter multiple times.

[hershey890 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Use Tanebaum and Bos' Modern Operating Systems or Arpaci-Dusseau's Operating Systems Three Easy Pieces instead.

This textbook is dry, full of pointless high-level fluff, verbose, and overly generic. Teaching operating systems from a generic, theoretical perspective is just a lot harder to learn from than something like Modern Operating Systems that actually includes pseudocode using the stl, pthreads, unix system calls, etc.

Not to mention Linus Torvalds studied Tanebaum's other textbook before creating Linux.

[Balmung · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good introduction to computer system: a great overview of all about a computer starting from file system and operating system to network. I think is a useful book for a first sight to computer system even though is to much generic in explaining some particular but in general this is not a problem for me.
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[Zhen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read for computer system engineers, but too verbose.