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COMPUTING
Edited by E.G. Coffman, Jr., J.K. Lenstra and A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan

CHAPTER 3
Operating Systems -The State of the Art
A.S. Tanenbaum

1. What is an operating system?*  

2. A brief history of operating systems

3. An example operating system-UNIX

4. Network operating systems

5. Distributed operating systems

6. Suggested readings

References

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