num_pages: 608
description: Providing a comprehensive introduction to operating systems, this book emphasizes the fundamentals of the key mechanisms of modern operating systems, and the types of design tradeoffs and decisions involved in operating system design. It presents recent developments in operating system design, and uses three running examples of operating systems to illustrate the material--Windows NT, UNIX, and IBM MVS.
language: English
title: Operating Systems
titlecomplete: Operating Systems
genres: Textbooks, Science, Computer Science, Reference, Nonfiction, School
ratings_count: 405
publisher: Prentice Hall