It's your chance...

[Miguel13]

...to advice other forum users about what should they read about Software/Hardware, especially the ones that deeply marked the evolution of your knowledge.

Here is my contribution:

A. Silberschatz, P. Galvin, "Operating System Concepts", 5th edition, Addison-Wesley 1998, ISBN 0-201-59113-8

A. Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks," Ed. Prentice-Hall, 3rd Edition, 1996

and all the books from the series "Nut in a shell" (real technical ones but they are the best ones most of the time).

P.S.: I'm not a English native speaker so forgive me if there is any language error above.

[hd581]

That OS Concepts book is the one we use for class. Pretty abstract. You get a general understanding of OS's from hardware up but it's just a concepts book, not a CS book. (i.e. not much coding) I do like that they talk about real implementation of some ideas in Solaris 2, 4.3BSD, NT.

Computer Architecture by Patterson and Hennesey is a good book mostly b/c of the excellent diagrams they draw of what they're trying to explain. I'm sure some of you have seen this book. They don't get way over my head like some other books do.

[This message has been edited by hd581 (edited 05-05-2000).]

[Banti]

Is that the one with the abacus on the front?? That is a good book.

Banti