Modern Operating Systems
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Modern Operating Systems
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
10 people recommended it in 5 threads, 2011–2019.
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There's just so much "how does all this shit actually work" in there ....
If your instructor uses Tanenbaum's perfectly good question about page eviction strategies from "Modern Operating Systems", rather than writing (and debugging) essentially the same question over again, they can spend more of their time talking to you and helping you.
Modern Operating Systems by Tanenbaum, although it's more basics, still relevant for low-level stuff.
I agree with you, but Tanenbaum's is more fundamental in the sense that it inspired Linus to create Linux.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: What are the most fundamental books on computer science? 2019 · 5 recommendations
- Must Read CS Books For Self Self-Taught Programmers 2011 · 2 recommendations
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- Ask HN: What's the best programming book you've read recently? 2014 · 1 recommendation
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