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

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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

主要讲操作系统的各个方面, 第一章引论,比较杂. 第二章进程与线程.讲的很详细,不过我有一部分还是没有看懂. 第三章的存储管理我感觉实际就是内存管理. 第四章的文件系统就比较简单了,没有很多的原理性的介绍,都很好理解. 第五章输入输出就更杂了. 第六章 死锁 没几页 第七章和...  

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，...  

想当年我读这本书之前，在计算机和操作系统方面还是一个小白，甚至连一个操作系统包含哪些部分都搞不太清楚，于是就想找一本操作系统方面的书来学习一下。 因为当时已经读过本书作者Andrew S. Tanenbaum的另外一本经典书籍《计算机网络》，而且觉得那本书的难度我还可以接受，...  

第2章 进程与线程 2.1 进程 2.2 线程 2.3 进程间通信 2.4 经典的IPC问题 2.5 调度 2.6 有关进程和线程的研究 2.7 小结 习题 第3章 死锁 3.1 资源 3.2 死锁概述 3.3 驼鸟算法 3.4 死锁检测和死锁恢复 3.5 死锁避免 3.6 死锁预防 3.7 其他问题 3.8 有关死锁的研究 3.9 小结 目前...  

目前只看了第3章，觉得最大问题在于很多描述都非常空洞...如果不是结合做过的ucore实验，感觉很难理解在讲什么。该讲细节时不讲细节，笼统讲时又不先描述下框架，抓不住重点。就比如分段这一节，说了分段的好处，然后给出了一些实现的例子。但是实现的例子讲得太差劲，很多细节...  

用户评价

有趣

很喜欢这本书，上个学期读完的，I/O 和 Filesystem 还差一点点，Tanenbaum 总是能够用风趣的叙事把看起来「复杂」的东西讲清楚。所以这本书的相同内容虽然比耶鲁那本恐龙书薄很多，却料并不少。Tanenbaum 总是强调过时的算法总是会以意想不到的方式「复生」；仔细想想，这便是我们要研读历史的原因吧。

操作系统经典教材，常读常新～

复习了一把

个人不是很喜欢，但是作为经典还是给5星吧