Modern Operating Systems

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| author = Andrew S. Tanenbaum
(and Herbert Bos for 4th and 5th editions)

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| language = English, German

| series = Learning

| subject = covers current UNIX® standards (POSIX.1-2001 /SUSv3 and POSIX.1-2008 /SUSv4 )

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| publisher = Prentice Hall (1st-3rd)
Pearson PLC (4th-5th)

| published = 1st edition 1992
2nd edition 2001
3rd edition 2007
4th edition March 20, 2014
5th edition 2022

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| pages = 1101

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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 5th edition, published October 2022 ({{ISBN|9780137618880}}), written together with Herbert Bos.

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

Category:Books on operating systems

Category:Computer science books

Category:1992 non-fiction books