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Re: hardware & OS related!
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote:
> 1) Which book on computer organization & arch do you suggest me?
Grab an Intel manual from their website. It's huge, but
light reading. Written more like a tutorial than a manual.
If you are looking for introductory material on OSes, grab one
of these from the library. It doesn't matter which one, they
are all pretty much the same:
Avi Silberschatz et al., Applied Operating System Concepts
H.M. Deitel, Operating Systems, 2nd ed.
Gary Nutt, Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective
Andrew Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems
We use Deitel's book for a Junior-level OS class. The resp.
graduate course uses Mukesh Singhal et al., Advanced Concepts
in Operating Systems. The latter is more about distributed
OSes, but it is also introductory material.
> 3) A friend o' mine suggested me two books on OS: The Design of 4.4BSD
> OS and UNIX Internals: the new frontiers, are they worth ?
4.4BSD is a good one. Haven't read the latter.
> 4) Are these book a good reading for a total begginner? If not what one
> do you suggest in order to get the necessary background on OS to be able
> to read the above ones ?
4.4BSD assumes that you know how to program and that you know
UNIX. But it's OK to be a beginner in OSes, you will still
understand most of it.
=alex
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