An Annotated Bibliography
Operating Systems
Spring 2012
Book Selecting Tips
Here are some tips for winnowing the available books to a handful of candidates:- Compare the book’s table of contents with the schedule to make sure the topics mentioned in the schedule (both the section titles and the lecture titles) appear in the table of contents. You can also look in the index, but a topic mentioned in the table of contents suggests more thorough coverage than a topic mentioned only in the index (although a topic with a sizeable index entry suggests thorough coverage too).
- Compare test questions and answers in previous versions of the course to the material covered in the book. The book may not lay out the answer (you are, after all, dealing with test questions), but you should be able to piece together the questions and answers from relevant parts of the book.
Once you have the candidate books, you can use your tastes and preferences to pick the final one or two books for the course.
Books with call numbers can be found in the library.
Textbooks
Modern Operating Systems by Andrew Tanenbaum from Prentice Hall, 2008. QA 76.76 O63 T359 2008
Operating Systems, 3rd edition, by Harvey and Paul Deitel and David Choffnes, Prentice Hall, 2004. QA76.76 O63 D46 2004
Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective, 2nd edition, by Gary Nutt from Addison Wesley, 2002. QA76.76.O63 N89 2002
Operating Systems and Middleware by Max Hailperin from Thompson, 2007.
Operating System Concepts, 8th edition, by Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, and Peter Galvin from Wiley, 2009. QA76.76.O63 S5583 2009
Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, 3rd edition, by Andrew Tanenbaum and Albert Woodhull from Prentice Hall, 2006. QA76.76.O63 T36 1997 (first edition)
Operating Systems Fundamentals by D. Irtegov, Charles River Media, 2003.
Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, 6th edition, by William Stallings, Prentice Hall, 2009. QA76.76.O63 S733 2009
An Operating Systems Vade Mecum, 2nd edition, by Raphael Finkel, Prentice-Hall, 1988.
Principles of Operating Systems by Brian Stuart, Thompson, 2009.
Other Material
Computer Organization & Design, 2nd edition, by David Patterson and John Hennessy, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998. QA76.9.C643 P37 2009 (fourth edition)
The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD UNIX Operating System by Marshall McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael Karels, and John Quarterman, Addison Wesley, 1996.
Developing your own 32-bit operating system by Richard Burgess, SAMS Publishing, 1995.
Operating System Design by Douglas Comer, CRC Press, 2012.
Systems Programming in Parallel Logic Languages by Ian Foster, Prentice Hall, 1990
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