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

Modern Operating Systems
First edition, 1992
AuthorAndrew S. Tanenbaum
(and Herbert Bos for 4th and 5th editions)
LanguageEnglish, German
SeriesLearning
Subjectcovers current UNIX® standards (POSIX.1-2001 /SUSv3 and POSIX.1-2008 /SUSv4 )
Published1st edition 1992
2nd edition 2001
3rd edition 2007
4th edition March 20, 2014
5th edition 2022
PublisherPrentice Hall 1st-3rd
Pearson PLC 4th
Pages1101
ISBN978-0133591620
Page 851: Simplified illustration of the structure of the Linux kernel.

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.