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Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

I failed the interview for an internship I really wanted in my 2nd year of engineering; I did get a shit internship that summer, but being really shaken at my incompetence, I took up this book, and quite honestly, it changed everything!

It truly sparked an interest in systems for me. The book helped me build a strong foundation in systems; Processes, memory, filesystems, networks, concurrency, synchronization and more. After reading OSTEP, it felt like an epiphany, and I charted a path for the rest of 2 years of college around distributed systems, systems research, and virtualization.

And the best part is that all this knowledge is free! Kudos to Professor Remzi and his work!

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This book is probably my favourite CS book as well.

> Kudos to Professor Remzi

Please remember that Professor Andrea deserves equal recognition for her work on this book.

Authors deserves respect for keeping this book free.

We were lucky to have a paperback low-cost-poorer-countries edition of The MINIX Book[1]. The code in the Minix book was an eye opener.The code clarifies the concept and sharpens the understanding.

Later on in my career as driver/firmware programmer, Computer Systems - A Programmers Perspective[2] and Unix Systems for Modern Architectures[3] helped a lot to clarify confusions and mysteries.

[1] https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Tanenbau... [2] https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Bryant-C... [3] https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Schimmel...

This book broke down a hard and mysterious topic (operating systems) for a new CS student like me into everyday analogies, which almost eradicated my fear of the subject matter. It had the appropriate amount of technical details to be usefully informative for a college class while also inspiring a more in-depth read of other material that are much more boring. The book is the reason why I love operating system so much, and I continued to take more CS classes as a math major.

Although I haven't completed it fully, but it is absolutely a masterpiece. The structure and the lucid explanation is something every author should learn from this. Not too yechnifal and yet covers every fundamental aspect.

This alongwith Nand2Tetris course can make your understanding of computer and programming works almost complete.

I was lucky enough to take Remzi's OS course. Both he and his wife are excellent teachers, and really truly caring people. I haven't kept up with him since school, but he was the best professor I had and it wasn't close.

Remzi was my favorite teacher by far. His OS class took me from being somewhat interested in computers and CS because I knew there were good jobs on the other side, to being fully interested in computer science and learning everything I could. Truly a wonderful teacher.

I second this

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