Andrew S. Tanenbaum's FAQ

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Post by MatthiasP » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 12:07 PM UTC

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Post by song » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 2:16 PM UTC

I strongly recommend reading all of his books. They are very clear and non boring and the knowledge you get from understanding them is really the basics of what any programer should know I believe (well except maybe for the distributed systems book).

After reading this faq, I'm very curious about the travel book.

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Post by micheljansen » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 2:20 PM UTC

> Will somebody please explain to me why 'ezel' (donkey) is masculine, 'paard' (horse) is neuter and 'antilope' (antelope) is feminine?

Don't worry, Dutch people don't know this either. Unfortunately that means for each word you'll have to learn whether it's a "de" or a "het" word. Something that slowly happens over time as your vocabulary expands. This is one of the main reasons why Dutch has a reputation of being difficult to master.

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Post by avinassh » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 2:26 PM UTC

song wrote: post #2

I strongly recommend reading all of his books. They are very clear and non boring and the knowledge you get from understanding them is really the basics of what any programer should know I believe (well except maybe for the distributed systems book). After reading this faq, I'm very curious about the travel book.

I love his Operating Systems book [0] which explains OS Concepts using Minix code

[0] - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131429388

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Post by petilon » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 2:35 PM UTC

avinassh wrote: post #4

song wrote: post #2

I strongly recommend reading all of his books. They are very clear and non boring and the knowledge you get from understanding them is really the basics of what any programer should know I believe (well except maybe for the distributed systems book). After reading this faq, I'm very curious about the travel book.

I love his Operating Systems book [0] which explains OS Concepts using Minix code [0] - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131429388

I recommend buying your computer books in India. US Price for this book is $150 USD. India price is around Rs. 427 which is around $7 USD. Textbook prices, like everything related to education and healthcare are excessively high in the US. A reasonable price would be around $50, which is what this book would cost if it wasn't a textbook.

The same book in Amazon India: http://www.amazon.in/Operating-Systems-Implementation-Tanenb...

Update: Cheaper books bought in India may not be commercially exported out of India

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Post by profil » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 2:39 PM UTC

> It was so strange to be in an environment with people having I.Q.'s below 150 and where it wasn't necessary to study 12, 13, 14 hours a day, seven days a week just to keep up.

Is this true? Seems crazy, how do you stand doing this for ~5 years?

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Post by willjack » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 2:43 PM UTC

profil wrote: post #6

> It was so strange to be in an environment with people having I.Q.'s below 150 and where it wasn't necessary to study 12, 13, 14 hours a day, seven days a week just to keep up. Is this true? Seems crazy, how do you stand doing this for ~5 years?

Slight exaggeration on the IQ, less so on the amount of work.

Source: 2nd year undergrad sitting in MIT lecture now, running on 3 hours of sleep.

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Post by SSLy » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 2:43 PM UTC

petilon wrote: post #5

avinassh wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love his Operating Systems book [0] which explains OS Concepts using Minix code [0] - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131429388

I recommend buying your computer books in India. US Price for this book is $150 USD. India price is around Rs. 427 which is around $7 USD. Textbook prices, like everything related to education and healthcare are excessively high in the US. A reasonable price would be around $50, which is what this book would cost if it wasn't a textbook. The same book in Amazon India: http://www.amazon.in/Operating-Systems-Implementa…

Yeah, do they ship to Europe?

Re: Andrew S. Tanenbaum's FAQ

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Post by ptaipale » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 2:53 PM UTC

avinassh wrote: post #4

song wrote: post #2

I strongly recommend reading all of his books. They are very clear and non boring and the knowledge you get from understanding them is really the basics of what any programer should know I believe (well except maybe for the distributed systems book). After reading this faq, I'm very curious about the travel book.

I love his Operating Systems book [0] which explains OS Concepts using Minix code [0] - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131429388

BTW how different is the 3rd edition from the 1st? I had it for my OS course (along with the Silberschatz book), but it was >25 years ago. Still have the Minix disks somewhere, I think. It was awesome to get a # prompt on a 8086, but in the end, what mattered was to have GNU utils, gcc, emacs and X11 on a 386, which meant Linux.

Re: Andrew S. Tanenbaum's FAQ

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Post by carlesfe » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 2:53 PM UTC

SSLy wrote: post #8

petilon wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recommend buying your computer books in India. US Price for this book is $150 USD. India price is around Rs. 427 which is around $7 USD. Textbook prices, like everything related to education and healthcare are excessively high in the US. A reasonable price would be around $50, which is what this book would cost if it wasn't a textbook. The same book in Amazon India: http://www.amazon.in/Operating-Systems-Implementa…

Yeah, do they ship to Europe?

Not to Spain, at least: "Sorry, this item can't be shipped to your selected address."