This book rocks! I took the OS class with Remzi’s wife my junior year and it was the one that made everything “click”, bridging the gap between the computer engineering/circuits and higher-level C code we otherwise did. OSTEP and Xv6 were really integral for understanding things inside and out because we had to implement what we learned about in class.
Isn't Andrea (Remzi's wife) a co-author of OSTEP?
Yup!
Yeah, I probably should have referred to her by name. Remzi seems to be the best-known professor in the CS department here.
This is a really great book for anyone interested. My professor used this in place of the more traditional book by Tanenbaum. It's easy to read and provides good citations if you want to read more in-depth about a specific chapter.
While its available completely free online, I highly recommend anyone who plans on using the book in detail to purchase a printed copy on lulu, its pretty cheap and looks really nice
+1 for 3 easy pieces. To me it felt the most natural book on operating systems.
Such a great book! As someone who came from a non-traditional background, this book was very key in helping me understand operating systems.