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Dewey Decimal Number: 005.43 EAN: 9780071364355 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0071364358 Label: McGraw-Hill Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: October 23, 2001 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Studio: McGraw-Hill Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills. This Schaum's Outline gives you
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 Rating:  - Satisfied CustomerMy book was in perfect condition. It was not damaged during shipping. Delivery was fast. I had regular shipping, ordered it on a Wednesday and it was here by Friday or Saturday. Rating: - Good at what it doesWhat it does: lead the reader through the basic concepts of classic operating systems: processes, synchronization, memory, virtual memory, file systems, IO, and security. Each section alternates between text and answered problems, as is usual for a Schaum's Outline. That's very helpful - putting a concept to use on one problem drives the point home better than a hundred pages of reading. The reader who completes this book, working a good number of the problems, will have seen most of the topics presented ... Read More Rating: - Excellent supplementI have over 10 Schaum's guides for my various courses. I would say this OS guide is perhaps the best one along with the Seymour Lipschutz's erudite "probability" (not to be confused with Murray R. Spiegel's befuddled attempt for Schaum's). The last reviewer's comments seemed unwarranted especially since this book has more then enough problems on semaphores even if it's not as strong on file systems. This book is spot on covering the important parts of the classic operating systems curriculum ... Read More Rating:  - Mediocre book, disappointingI was looking for a rigorous review to supplement my Operating Systems course and I found that this book certainly fell short of that. I wanted more practice for the kinds of questions we would get on exams, but many of the topics addressed were treated at too simplistic of a level. I also would have have preferred a range of examples dealing with topics like semaphores and mutual exclusion, deadlock, file systems, but instead all the sample questions were disappointing and I found myself actually ... Read More 
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