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1993 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Functions and Characteristics of an Operating System

Authors : A. M. Lister, R. D. Eager

Published in: Fundamentals of Operating Systems

Publisher: Macmillan Education UK

Included in: Professional Book Archive

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In this chapter we discuss in more detail the functions which we expect an operating system to perform, and isolate some of the characteristics it must exhibit in order to do so.

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Title
Functions and Characteristics of an Operating System
Authors
A. M. Lister
R. D. Eager
Copyright Year
1993
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
Book
Fundamentals of Operating Systems

Print ISBN: 978-0-333-59848-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-349-13283-6

Copyright Year: 1993

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13283-6_2

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