Distributed Operating Systems | 
 enlarge | Author: Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 425426
Media: Paperback
Edition: US Ed
Pages: 648
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0132199084
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.44
EAN: 9780132199087
Publication Date: September 4, 1994
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Product Description
As distributed computer systems become more pervasive, there is a need for a book that explains how their operating systems are designed and implemented. This book, which is a revised and expanded Part II of the best selling MODERN OPERATING SYSTEMS, fulfills that need. KEY TOPICS: It covers the material from the original book, including communication, synchronization, processes and file systems, and adds new material on distributed shared memory. It also contains 4 detailed case studies, Amoeba, Mach, Chorus, and OSF/DCE. Tanenbaum's trademark writing style provides the reader with a thorough yet concise treatment of distributed systems.
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 The best Distributed Operating System book January 13, 2000
6 out of 18 found this review helpful
If you know Andrew S. Tanembaum and know "Modern Operating Systems" you will like this book. It's a upgrade to Distributed Systems and more. You will need this!
Distributed Operating Systems January 21, 2001
1 out of 27 found this review helpful
Good, I'm going to use it next semester and I hope to learn so much from it
 Well-Written Introductory Text June 18, 2001
Wayne Miller (The Woodlands, Texas United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The book contains concepts and algorithms in the first half, and then lists (I think 3) distributed operating systems in the back as case studies. The book is very readable and entertaining, assuming you've had a course (or the equivalent) in (single machine) operating systems.This book covers all major aspects of distributed operating systems at reasonable level of depth -- you can't expect too much detail if you're going to cover all the topics. There's no examples of "real" code in the text, I think that's a good thing. There are a number of useful algorithms discussed in each chapter. This book is aging, and a little of the information is already dated (7 years old).
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