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''Modern Operating Systems'' is a book written by
''Modern Operating Systems'' is a book written by Andrew Tanenbaum
Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum (born March 16, 1944), sometimes referred to by the handle ast, is an American-Dutch computer scientist and professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
He is the author ...
, a version (which does not target implementation) of his book '' Operating Systems: Design and Implementation''. It is now in its 4th edition, published March 2014 (), written together with Herbert Bos.
''Modern Operating Systems'' (mostly known as ''MOS'') is a popular book across the globe and includes the fundamentals of an operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also i ...
with small amounts of code written in autonomous C language
C (''pronounced like the letter c'') is a general-purpose computer programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie, and remains very widely used and influential. By design, C's features cleanly reflect the capabilities o ...
. ''MOS'' describes many scheduling algorithm
In computing, scheduling is the action of assigning ''resources'' to perform ''tasks''. The ''resources'' may be processors, network links or expansion cards. The ''tasks'' may be threads, processes or data flows.
The scheduling activity is ca ...
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Books on operating systems
Computer science books
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