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Re: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

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Post by gdoptimizer » Sun, Feb 07, 2021, 7:59 AM UTC

I highly recommend this book. The chapters were "bite sized". Compared with the dinosaur book, it was easier to finish one chapter after I started on it. The chapters on concurrency made me cry with "so this is how XXX works" a lot. I also found the references near the end of each chapter were full of gems.

I self-taught CS, so not surprisingly there were lots of "void" and "dots" in my knowledge space. This book connected lots of dots together.

Re: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

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Post by pjmorris » Sun, Feb 07, 2021, 8:17 AM UTC

This is a terrific book, really solid technical content, historical perspective, and entertaining writing.

I feel like it needs a fourth piece, maybe 'distribution', focused on networking.

Re: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

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Post by staticassertion » Sun, Feb 07, 2021, 9:20 AM UTC

This book is awesome, I highly recommend it. It's one I've meant to go back to, just haven't had the time.

Re: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

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Post by justinc8687 » Sun, Feb 07, 2021, 9:41 AM UTC

sedivy94 wrote: post #14

I had Remzi as a professor. He is one of the best educators I’ve encountered.

Me too. I was in the inaugural OS labs class (CS 537) and it was probably one of the best classes I took at UW. For my final project, I wrote a beep driver.

Re: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

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Post by integricho » Sun, Feb 07, 2021, 10:41 AM UTC

Is there an ETA on an updated printed version?

I see the changelog has a lot of fixes and improvements for v1.01, but the print version is still being sold for v1.0

Re: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

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Post by globular-toast » Sun, Feb 07, 2021, 11:03 AM UTC

I haven't read this book but I thoroughly recommend all programmers to study operating systems and write your own toy OS. It really gives you a deeper understanding of what it means to program a computer and operating systems require use of all the classical data structures. I like the book Operating System Design: The Xinu Approach because it walks you through the design and implementation of a real operating system that is small enough to understand in its entirety. But whatever path you take, studying operating systems will make you a better programmer and really set you apart from the majority of your peers. Plus it's fun!

Re: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

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Post by miguendes » Sun, Feb 07, 2021, 1:54 PM UTC

OSTEP is a great OS book. I wish I had discovered it when I was doing my Cs degree.

I'm planning to follow through it this year to brush up my OS knowledge and will also use 6.828 as a guide for labs and video lectures [1].

[1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2020/schedule.html

Re: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

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Post by msapaydin » Sun, Feb 07, 2021, 2:31 PM UTC

I taught an OS class (for the first time) in my career with this book (I taught many other classes before). It was a breeze, compared to the books used by faculty who taught earlier versions of the class. Students much enjoyed this book as well. The fact that it is freely available was a great plus.

Re: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

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Post by shafin_ » Sun, Feb 07, 2021, 4:33 PM UTC

Every topic is explained with example, which clears your understanding. 10/10 book. I'm currently on distributed file system chapter.

Re: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

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Post by MikeBVaughn » Sun, Feb 07, 2021, 8:06 PM UTC

schaefer wrote: post #18

baby wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you go through it and how much time did it take?

Personally, I was super interested in reviewing memory virtualization and memory paging. The bulk of my effort went into a very focused two day push. 200 pages in total: Chapters 1-6, 11-16, 18-24. Postponing all the homework. I did all this reading on an ipad, highlighting everything in different colors, and adding blank pages every now and then for personal notes. I then built and booted xv6 under emulation and sta…

I really like the idea of following specific subsystems of the Linux kernel forward from 1.0! That's a cool "basics-up" approach.