How to understand Tanenbaum's books?

Question

Books

Hello,
at the moment I am reading Tanenbaum's book (Modern Operating Systems, 4th edition). I got to about 50-60 pages, but I don't understand anything. He uses a lot of terms that I don't know. Can you recommend any book for dummies? Or should I continue this book (accompanying information from other sources) and everything will work out in my head? Maybe I should read books about iron now?

PS I need to understand how operating systems work (boot, system calls, general information that is in many systems), how streams work, the file system, etc.

Answer 1

There are books that are slow to read. This is not fiction and not a book about programming where code listings take up a lot of space. No need to try to jump forward very fast. Read as many pages at a time as you can comprehend, looking for unfamiliar terms and concepts in other sources. When you feel overwhelmed, pause and let your brain process the information, then do another set. I would plan to read this book for 4-6 months, depending on your initial preparation and the amount of free time. My main thesis is this - the brain can understand a certain amount of information at a time, so all that remains is the daily repetition of feasible approaches to the book.

Answer 2

Feature of the brain by loading it you get the material.
And so on incomprehensible terms look in Google. You will collect the base of terms.
What's the problem with system calls and his jokes about winapi ?

Answer 3

As an option, you can try to look at the courses on the steppe or the courser, many things are not so fully covered there, but if you just started studying, I think it will suit you.