Customer comments on this selection.
 Ho hum yawn
Perhaps it is my short attention span or my lack of interest in this book, but I felt the information in this book was puffed up with alot of technical jargon and not much consistency.
br /Using multi-threading classes was a good idea, but how it was explained was boring and shuffled throughout the book.
 Fairly good delivery time
I bought a used book that is still in good shape. The delivery time was also fair.
OS Time
Please, it's a book on operating systems with a flippin dinosaur on the cover. Actually not a bad book, though in reality, I did feel like a retard reading something with a dinosaur theme throughout the book. Then again, I feel like a retard most days.
If you take a class...
That uses this as it's text, be worried. The book is decent, but definitely just "concepts," no intensive knowledge is conveyed in it's pages. Oh well.
 Somewhat interesting but flawed
This book offers coverage of issues encountered in designing an operating system, but does this in a rather dry and uninteresting manner, using examples and diagrams which are somewhat contrived and confusing at times.
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br /Its code snippets are often incorrect and shows no sign it has ever been checked for correctness. I am basing this assumption on the fact this is the 7th edition and blatant errors still exists. Errors range from syntax to logic errors, both in the explanations and code provided.
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br /The book also does not explain certain algorithms, and merely prints them in pseudo code, then moves on with not insights into the how and why of it.
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br /If you have no other choice, then this book will suffice as long as you take what it says with a grain of salt, and apply your own logic rather than take what the authors say as gospel.
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br /Cheers,
br /Steve
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