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I have not seen the like of this book. It was used as the text for an operating system course I took last winter. It covers all you need to know about operating system concepts. The numerous examples included couldn't have been explained in any better way. The approach from the first page to the last page makes you to always want to read more. It was so written in an interesting manner that you can never read a chapter in half. The references are very informative and provide links to other sources of valuable information. The book includes a good comparison of certain concepts in Windows and Unix Operating systems. The questions at the end of each chapter were tough though, with little or no hints, but nonetheless I will greatly recommend it for anybody taking any class in operating systems.

I read this text in an Operating Systems class at the University of Phoenix. I liked the "bad" examples which were faulted by another reviewer, just as much as I liked the "good" examples. The "bad" examples show different approaches to solving the same problem, while showing the difficulty one might encounter while attempting to solve the problem that way.

My conclusion: if you are interested in the "bottom line" or "right answer," this book contains a lot of extraneous information. If you are interested in the hows and whys of current practice, this book is probably for you.

I bought this book for my class. Since is is a text book, whatever is inside didn't matter to me. Easy to read though...
But the price and the service from AMAZON was amazing.
Don't buy your text books from campus book stores ever again.
They are the ripper-offers.