Loved the distributed systems book. It is just sad that field has not left academia yet. We should be in a world where every programmer should know the contents of that book, instead of reinventing the wheel as we are doing now.

I love his Operating Systems book [0] which explains OS Concepts using Minix code

[0] - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131429388

I recommend buying your computer books in India. US Price for this book is $150 USD. India price is around Rs. 427 which is around $7 USD. Textbook prices, like everything related to education and healthcare are excessively high in the US. A reasonable price would be around $50, which is what this book would cost if it wasn't a textbook.

The same book in Amazon India: http://www.amazon.in/Operating-Systems-Implementation-Tanenb...

Update: Cheaper books bought in India may not be commercially exported out of India

I was eager to take your advice. Problem is it can't be shipped to the US.

See LeonRobrotsky's suggestion with AbeBooks.

Another suggestion is Barnes & Noble. (Yes, really.)

I myself had borrowed a copy through interlibrary loan back in November after checking Amazon for <$50 dollar copies, only to be blown away that they were more like $160-$190. If you've used ILL, though, you probably know how tedious it can be.

A couple of weeks ago, I had to kill some time, so I meandered into a Barnes & Noble for the first time in years and on a whim tried to look up Operating Systems: Design and Implementation on bn.com. Turns out, bn.com operates not just to sell B&N wares, but also apparently as a sort of hub for third-party sellers, (just?) like Amazon. I was surprised to see the market rate for used copies was $34.50, so I snagged one.

Meanwhile, the AbeBooks link above has a shrink-wrapped copy for $16.52.

Takeaway: don't assume that Amazon is the end-all-be-all, even for books.

Yeah, do they ship to Europe?

Not to Spain, at least: "Sorry, this item can't be shipped to your selected address."

And not to México either... :(

I sourced it in the UK as an (IIRC) "International Edition"

Just look on AbeBooks:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=978812032...

Irony of ironies: if you look at the bottom of Amazon's front page, you'll see they own Abe.

After Kirtsaeng [1], I don't think so... (at least as far as US law is concerned)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_Son....

BTW how different is the 3rd edition from the 1st? I had it for my OS course (along with the Silberschatz book), but it was >25 years ago. Still have the Minix disks somewhere, I think. It was awesome to get a # prompt on a 8086, but in the end, what mattered was to have GNU utils, gcc, emacs and X11 on a 386, which meant Linux.

Completely different. MINIX was 100% overhauled.

Right at this moment I'm reading Computer Networks (4th Edition) and loving it! I enjoy his writing style, mainly because he makes jokes all the time! Funny guy :)