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Summary: Best book on the Unix Operating System
Review: A very comprehensive book to understand the unix operating system. A must read for any one who want to appreciate the beauty of design of unix os.
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Summary: Perfect foundational book
Review: After becoming a Linux enthusiast, I bought the book "Understanding the Linux Kernel", which I unfortunately found to be almost completely impenetrable. I had heard good things about this book ("The Design of the UNIX Operating System") - in fact, I read somewhere that this was the book that taught Linus to write OS code. I put down the Linux book and picked up Maurice Bachs, which I found perfectly readable - it's abstract treatment of kernel algorithms made it easy to get the "big picture". Now, with Bach's complete treatment of the design philosophy under my belt, I'm going back to the linux kernel book, and I've found it to be a breeze... even the linux kernel source code itself now makes sense. This book is excellent for anybody who's serious about programming.
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Summary: A must have
Review: Anyone claiming to be a unix programmer must have read this book
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Summary: Awesome book on UNIX Internals
Review: It is one of the greatest books that I have ever read on UNIX. It is a comprhensive yet simple depiction of Unix Operating System. This book is a MUST READ for UNIX / UNIX LIKE Operating System Engineers. It is worth possesing a copy as it can come handy quite regularly. I give it a full go go!
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Summary: comprehensive but really dry and a little bit dated...
Review: it seems that it is one of the classic unix introduction textbook but I feel that it is not as good as those reviewer below ever said... too dry... printing style is exactly simple text... hard to read...
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Summary: A model for how technical books should be written
Review: Maurice Bach's The Design of the Unix Operating System still holds the place of honor on my technical reference bookshelf. After almost 20 years, it provides a clear overview of basic Unix organization and operations and is a model for how technical books should be written. Readers who complain that the text is dated evidently did not bother to notice the 1986 copyright date. Its age, however, has not diminished its clarity of content or usefulness in understanding the Unix operating system. Bach deserves an award for excellence in technical writing.
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Summary: Recommended reading for those interested in UNIX' soft belly
Review: Maurice J. Bach's classic "The Design of the UNIX Operating System" is based on AT&T's System V (Release 2 and 3). To avoid legal issues he had to use pseudo code as well as algorithmic description for explaining a lot of the operating system's underpinnings. While some reader's might have preferred a glance at the related portions of the UNIX source code, others will be glad that MJB used this layer of abstraction to make the subject matter at hand easier accessible and understandable. Even though UNIX has progressed from this snapshot in time, the solid understanding of the internals and underlying concepts that can be gained from this easy to read text will prove helpfull for a better understanding of other UNIX derivatives, too. While this title is a "must read" for any advanced system administrator, as well as for system programmers, it's generally overkill for the average UNIX end user.
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Summary: Recommended reading for those interested in UNIX' soft belly
Review: Maurice J. Bach's classic "The Design of the UNIX Operating System" is based on AT&T's System V (Release 2 and 3). To avoid legal issues he had to use pseudo code as well as algorithmic description for explaining a lot of the operating system's underpinnings. While some reader's might have preferred a glance at the related portions of the UNIX source code, others will be glad that MJB used this layer of abstraction to make the subject matter at hand easier accessible and understandable. Even though UNIX has progressed from this snapshot in time, the solid understanding of the internals and underlying concepts that can be gained from this easy to read text will prove helpfull for a better understanding of other UNIX derivatives, too. While this title is a "must read" for any advanced system administrator, as well as for system programmers, it's generally overkill for the average UNIX end user.
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Summary: Unix Internals in an algorithmic approach
Review: The book explains almost every aspect of the unix kernel in an algorithmic fashion. All the system calls and explained as algorithms which is very useful if you want to implement some. kudos to Bach for his great work.
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Summary: Comprehensive book on the insides of UNIX
Review: The book is really a nice book giving you a detailed insight into the UNIX OS, System V Release 3. The book is very good for beginners also. A background in C programming will help and access to a system V, Unix is needed to make full use of this gem.
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