Recommended operating systems textbook?

[helpme]

I'm in my final quarter of EE undergrad courses, and am looking for a decent text for self study.

The teacher who is teaching the operating systems course this quarter is pretty bad, and doesn't challenge the students much. As a result, I opted to take a course from the grad department in "Advanced Microprocessors" (really just a course about the motorola 68k series of processors) as I also have an interest in computer arch.

Though I'm not taking the OS class, I still would like to study many of the same topics on my own time. The school uses a book from DEITEL and DEITEL, but I never really liked the various programming books I've purchased from them.

Any recommendations?

 

[bobsmith1492]

EGR226 coursepack from GVSU - all about the 68HC11.

EDIT: Oh, and only like 10 bucks.

 

[helpme]

This is material about designing operating systems for the HC11? Or is this a reference about the microcontroller?

Any way for a non student to pick it up

 

[bobsmith1492]

Well... you don't really need an OS for a microcontroller, although I suppose a basic program that always runs on it could be CALLED an OS. 226 is a digital systems course, mostly about digital logic, and there's a lot of programming in C. For about half the course we worked with a robot controlled by the 68HC11, programming it to do this and that. I'm sure you could get it at the university bookstore, if you're somewhere in Michigan. On the other hand, I don't really think it's what you're looking for, if you're in "Advanced microprocessors." Then again, how advanced is "advanced," and if it's about microprocessors, the HC11 is a microcontroller, so it's not even related.... Sorry.

 

[helpme]

You may have been confused by the "68k" I listed in my post. This refers to the 68000 line of processors from Motorola (68000, 68020, 68040, etc) and not the 68HC11 or HC12 microcontrollers.

I'm not looking for stuff on the 68K or HC series devices, but an operating system design book.

 

[helpme]

Anybody have experience with these books?

Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne
(4/5 on amazon)

Modern Operating Systems (2nd Edition) by Andrew Tanenbaum
(4/5 on amazon)

As a contrast, the Deitel and Deitel book my school uses is 3.5/5 at amazon.

 

[icarus4586]

I'm in Operating Systems 1 at Rochester Institute of Technology now, and we're using the first book (I think, anyway... is it the one with the ridiculous illustration of dinosaurs using computers on the cover?). We aren't very far into it yet, but the book seems decent. It goes through the various parts of an operating system and gives examples and such. It also references modern operating systems (Windows, Linux, Solaris, OS X) in explaining components, and shows which methods each use.
Altogether it's a pretty good book, and makes for halfway decent reading material.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: helpme
Anybody have experience with these books?

Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne
(4/5 on amazon)

Modern Operating Systems (2nd Edition) by Andrew Tanenbaum
(4/5 on amazon)

As a contrast, the Deitel and Deitel book my school uses is 3.5/5 at amazon.

We used the 2nd Edition Tanenbaum in my OS class. LOTS of useful information, although it's not exactly easy reading. I liked it... of course, I also think his jokes are funny...

 

[Varun]

Originally posted by: helpme
Anybody have experience with these books?

Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne
(4/5 on amazon)

Modern Operating Systems (2nd Edition) by Andrew Tanenbaum
(4/5 on amazon)

As a contrast, the Deitel and Deitel book my school uses is 3.5/5 at amazon.

We are using the Operating System Concepts book right now in my course. It's a pretty good overview of all the basics of modern operating systems (processes, threads, scheduling, file systems, etc) I've never used any other book so I can't say how it compares, but overall it seems to work for an intro to operating systems.

 

[helpme]

Interesting, thanks guys!

 

[sgentry6]

In my good old undergrad days we used the Silberschatz book. I recently picked this up:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067232...542?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

Linux Kernel Development. I have only made it through a couple of chapters, but I thought it would be an excellent addition to the class (it was cheap and covered a lot of the same concepts).

The examples are good, and you can obtain them quite easily.