vu0541@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (vu0541) (12/07/89)
Distributed O.S. is a research area and I wonder there is any book that could be used as a text book. If you know there is one, please let me know. Thanks!
cova@notecnirp.Princeton.EDU (Luis Cova) (12/12/89)
In article <2715@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> vu0541@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (vu0541) writes: > >Distributed O.S. is a research area and I wonder there is any book that >could be used as a text book. If you know there is one, please let me >know. Thanks! > I recommend the following book, "Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design" George F. Coulouris Jean Dollimore edited by Addison-Wesley 1st. issue 1988 It gives general concepts about distributed operating systems (RPC, file systems design, networking, security). I have never use it as a course text book (because I don't teach :-), but I believe it would make a great text book for a senior level course. --luis P.S. if you want a more theoretical book on the fundamental problems in Distributed systems and some solutions read "Distributed Algorithms and Protocols" Michael Raynal edited by John Wiley & Sons 1st. english issue 1988 (the french version was published in 1985) ============================================================== "If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded" Luis L. Cova Computer Science Department Princeton University Princeton, NJ, 08544 UUCP: allegra!princeton!cova ARPA: cova@princeton.edu BITNET: cova%princeton.edu@pucc.bitnet ==============================================================