How long does it take to read System Software?
Leland L. Beck
System Software by Leland L. Beck takes about 8 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1985. 480 pages, about 132,000 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this third edition of his classic title, Leland Beck provides a complete introduction to the design and implementation of various types of system software. A core text for undergraduate/graduate software students, it stresses on the relationship between system software and the architecture of the machine it is designed to support, presenting the fundamental concepts of each type of software lucidly.
Subjects: Systems programming (Computer science), Computer programming, Desenvolvimento de software, Sistemas operacionais, Systemprogrammierung, Programmation d'etudes (Informatique)
