Modern Operating Systems

Andrew S.Tanenbaum 拥有美国麻省理工学院的理学学士学位和加州大学伯克利分校的哲学博士学位，目前是荷兰阿姆斯特丹Vrije大学的计算机科学系教授，并领导着一个计算机系统的研究小组。多年来，他在操作系统、编译技术、网络及局域分布式系统方面进行了大量的研究工作，并在各种学术杂志及会议上发表了多篇论文，同时还是5本计算机专著的作者。Tanenbaurn是ACM会员、IEEE资深会员、荷兰皇家艺术和科学学院院士，多次获得计算机教育杰出贡献奖。他还入选了《世界名人录》。

出版者:Pearson

作者:[美] Andrew S·Tanenbaum

页数:1104

出版时间:2007-12-21

价格:USD 132.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780136006633

图书标签:操作系统OS计算机计算机科学CS经典Tanenbaum系统

For software development professionals and computer science students, Modern Operating Systems gives a solid conceptual overview of operating system design, including detailed case studies of Unix/Linux and Windows 2000.

What makes an operating system modern? According to author Andrew Tanenbaum, it is the awareness of high-demand computer applications--primarily in the areas of multimedia, parallel and distributed computing, and security. The development of faster and more advanced hardware has driven progress in software, including enhancements to the operating system. It is one thing to run an old operating system on current hardware, and another to effectively leverage current hardware to best serve modern software applications. If you don't believe it, install Windows 3.0 on a modern PC and try surfing the Internet or burning a CD.

Readers familiar with Tanenbaum's previous text, Operating Systems, know the author is a great proponent of simple design and hands-on experimentation. His earlier book came bundled with the source code for an operating system called Minux, a simple variant of Unix and the platform used by Linus Torvalds to develop Linux. Although this book does not come with any source code, he illustrates many of his points with code fragments (C, usually with Unix system calls).

The first half of Modern Operating Systems focuses on traditional operating systems concepts: processes, deadlocks, memory management, I/O, and file systems. There is nothing groundbreaking in these early chapters, but all topics are well covered, each including sections on current research and a set of student problems. It is enlightening to read Tanenbaum's explanations of the design decisions made by past operating systems gurus, including his view that additional research on the problem of deadlocks is impractical except for "keeping otherwise unemployed graph theorists off the streets."

It is the second half of the book that differentiates itself from older operating systems texts. Here, each chapter describes an element of what constitutes a modern operating system--awareness of multimedia applications, multiple processors, computer networks, and a high level of security. The chapter on multimedia functionality focuses on such features as handling massive files and providing video-on-demand. Included in the discussion on multiprocessor platforms are clustered computers and distributed computing. Finally, the importance of security is discussed--a lively enumeration of the scores of ways operating systems can be vulnerable to attack, from password security to computer viruses and Internet worms.

Included at the end of the book are case studies of two popular operating systems: Unix/Linux and Windows 2000. There is a bias toward the Unix/Linux approach, not surprising given the author's experience and academic bent, but this bias does not detract from Tanenbaum's analysis. Both operating systems are dissected, describing how each implements processes, file systems, memory management, and other operating system fundamentals.

Tanenbaum's mantra is simple, accessible operating system design. Given that modern operating systems have extensive features, he is forced to reconcile physical size with simplicity. Toward this end, he makes frequent references to the Frederick Brooks classic The Mythical Man-Month for wisdom on managing large, complex software development projects. He finds both Windows 2000 and Unix/Linux guilty of being too complicated--with a particular skewering of Windows 2000 and its "mammoth Win32 API." A primary culprit is the attempt to make operating systems more "user-friendly," which Tanenbaum views as an excuse for bloated code. The solution is to have smart people, the smallest possible team, and well-defined interactions between various operating systems components. Future operating system design will benefit if the advice in this book is taken to heart. --Pete Ostenson --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Description

The widely anticipated revision of this worldwide best-seller incorporates the latest developments in operating systems technologies. The Third Edition includes up-to-date materials on relevant operating systems such as Linux, Windows, and embedded real-time and multimedia systems. Includes new and updated coverage of multimedia operating systems, multiprocessors, virtual machines, and antivirus software. Covers internal workings of Windows Vista (Ch. 11); unique even for current publications. Provides information on current research based Tanenbaum’s experiences as an operating systems researcher. A useful reference for programmers.

读后感

我念的是原版的英文，这本书不光介绍概念十分清晰和富有条理，而且作者用词引人入胜，用了许多口语化的单词，不会让人觉得枯燥和乏味，封面的设计也是非常有意思，没事看看封面想想这些概念，也挺有启发性。许多地方作者都用了生动形象和贴切的比喻，让人感觉思路十分明朗，不...  

终于读完了，有种如释重负的感觉。 原书篇幅不小，作为一个英语并非强项的读者来说，不时需要查查词典甚至对照下中文版来阅读的。 其实书背上关于作者Tanenbaum的介绍，唯独缺了一条：MINIX最初的作者！这点是我在读时看到一句“MINIX是由本书的作者写的”这样轻描淡写的话时才...  

作为一个CPU数字电路工程师，工作了几年之后想学习下操作系统。先读了“Operating System Concepts Ninth Edition”，感觉内容讲解不连贯之后，开始读“Modern Operating System”电子版。读了大部分之后非常喜欢，然后买了这本纸质版。结果它画蛇添足地加了一个中文版地目录，...  

不能因为作者是Tanenbaum,译者是北大清华的，就不敢对这本书质疑，这本书就是个科学文摘，每个知识都点到为止，不做解释和深入，我敢说中国的教材就是模仿这个风格的 同意的姐妹们点赞 写个评论都要凑够140字？ 写个评论都要凑够140字？ 写个评论都要凑够140字？ 写个评论都要...  

用户评价

复习了一把

作者还不忘向Macintosh致敬

CS600.418

1000多页的废话啊。。。作者的英语有待修炼。

囊括linux, vista和symbian