Modern Operating Systems

Modern Operating Systems

Modern Operating Systems is a book written by Andrew Tanenbaum, a version (which does not target implementation) of his book Operating Systems: Design and Implementation. It is now in its 3rd edition, published December 2007 (ISBN 0-13-600663-9).

Modern Operating Systems (mostly known as MOS) is a popular book across the globe and includes the basic fundamentals of an operating system with small amounts of code written in autonomous C language. MOS describes many scheduling algorithms.


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