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Modern Operating Systems: Second Edition by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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For software development professionals and computer science students, Modern Operating Systems gives a solid conceptual overview of operating system design, including detailed case studies of Unix/Linux and Windows 2000. What makes an operating system modern? According to author Andrew Tanenbaum, it is the awareness of high-demand computer applications--primarily in the areas of multimedia, parallel and distributed computing, and security. The development of faster and more advanced hardware has driven progress in software, including enhancements to the operating system. It is one thing to run an old operating system on current hardware, and another to effectively leverage current hardware to best serve modern software applications. If you don't believe it, install Windows 3.0 on a modern PC and try surfing the Internet or burning a CD. Readers familiar with Tanenbaum's previous text, Operating Systems , know the author is a great proponent of simple design and hands-on experimentation. His earlier book came bundled with the source code for an operating system called Minux, a simple variant of Unix and the platform used by Linus Torvalds to develop Linux. Although this book doe

Who reads Modern Operating Systems: Second Edition?

Author

Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos

Publisher

Prentice Hall of India

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780130926418

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Operating Systems, Reference

Rating

4.04 / 5 (1,264 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14