Operating Systems: Design and Implementation

Operating Systems: Design and Implementation ISBN 0-13-142938-8 ISBN 978-0136373315 is a Computer Science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

textbook written by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum is a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and for his computer science textbooks, regarded as standard texts in the...

, with help from Albert S. Woodhull. It includes Tanenbaum's MINIX

Minix

MINIX is a Unix-like computer operating system based on a microkernel architecture created by Andrew S. Tanenbaum for educational purposes; MINIX also inspired the creation of the Linux kernel....

, a free Unix-like operating system designed for teaching purposes. Publisher is Prentice Hall (1987). The source code

Source code

In computer science, source code is text written using the format and syntax of the programming language that it is being written in. Such a language is specially designed to facilitate the work of computer programmers, who specify the actions to be performed by a computer mostly by writing source...

for MINIX was included as part of the original 719 pages of text. Later versions of the three editions also included loadable disks with MINIX.

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