Both relevant books are by tanenbaum.  If you go to the prentice hall
web page (just type ``prenhall'' to netscape) you find these listed
<ol>
<li>Operating Systems: Design And Implementation, 2/e 
<li>Structured Computer Organization, 3/e
<li>Modern Operating Systems, 1/e
<li>Computer Networks, 3/e
<li>Distributed Operating Systems, 1/e
</ol>

<p>Only 1,3,5 are OS books.

<p>3 is the text for the prereq course 202 and is the official text for
this course.  Part I of 3 is traditional OS text.  Part II covers dist
OS.

<p>1 contains part I of 3 plus LOTS of info on a specific OS called
Minix.  It is not relevant for this course.

<p>5 is part I of 3 revised and expanded.  It would be the ideal text for
the course.  For economic reasons I did not make it the text.  Many
students already own 3 and there is large overlap between 5 and part
II of 3.