Operating Systems
"This book is organized around three concepts fundamental to OS construction: virtualization (of CPU and memory), concurrency (locks and condition variables), and persistence (disks, RAIDS, and file systems"--Back cover.
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- I had a quick look (the book can be borrowed on archive.org) and I'm not very enthusiastic about this book. It might serve as a first introduction to the topic, though IMHO it tries to cover a too broad range of topics including typical distributed systems stuff (e.g. the Byzantine generals problem). Almost $100 seems to be quite expensive for that book, though I know of the horrible inflation of textbook prices in the US.
My usual recommendation for students and practitioners interested in OS theory and internals with a solid practical connection is Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau's (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces".
The book is available for free as PDF from https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
- Symbolic Logic and The Game of Logic, by Lewis Carroll
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces, by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
- CODE: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold
The Elements of Computing Systems - Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces - Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
- "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Remzi H Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C Arpaci-Dusseau"
It is by one of the coauthors of the Hennessy and Patterson book and it is uptodate, well written and free.
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
The book's page also has links to other interesting books on operating systems and lobsters (sic).
The author's teaching page links to excellent undergraduate and graduate level OS material.
- Data structures and algorithms: "Competitive Programmer’s Handbook" by Antti Laaksonen (https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf).
Operating systems: "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/).
- Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau. It is free here http://ostep.org/
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