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> Hi, I'm taking operating systems with you and I've got a friend who has > the SECOND EDITION of the the text book. The second edition is 1995 > book. I would like to know if the book that is going to be offered at the > Mcgill book store is the second edition(1995) or the one in the course > syllabus. I would also like to know if it would be better to get the > second edition (1995) or the one in the course syllabus. Do you know if > there is a large difference between the two? The second edition (1995) *is* the textbook. What you see in the syllabus is the kosher citation from my bib database: books are always cited under their first print. However, I would hardly ask students to go dig antiquarian book stores for a tome no longer in print ;-) But maybe you're right - I'll make the point more explicit next class. ========================================================================== > Hi. Thank you for replying my last email about class notes. I also like > to ask you about the text book. If I have all your notes on line and copy > some notes from your class lecture, would that be sufficient enough for > the course? In other words, do I really need to buy the text book? The Stallings' is a good reference book, that you might want to keep anyway if you plan to continue working in system-related areas. My notes (read the disclaimer at the beginning) are currently in 0.0099alpha version, meaning that I take them barely useful to myself ;-) Well...some students found them useful last year, anyways, and you may want to have them handy, especially when I start sending you guys to hack in wilds of UNIX, two weeks from now. The only "official" references for this class are (A) my own voice during the lectures and (B) your common sense. Overall, I will follow rather closely what I like in the textbook (a lot), particularly for the theoretical part of the lectures. I'll let you all know what I don't like there, and will give references and handouts for what's not in there