I offer a small (only a thousand pages) gift to everyone who needs to know how an operating system works: a scanned version of the classic “Introduction to Operating Systems” by Dmitry Irtegov.

The book is written based on lectures given to NSU students , was translated into English in 2002, and its deeply revised version was republished in 2009. It is this that I scanned and offer to you.

The textbook can be an excellent alternative to Tanenbaum and many others: it covers almost all issues related to a modern operating system.

The architecture of modern operating systems is described families UNIX, Win32, OS/2, VAX/VMS, etc. A brief introduction to the hardware is given. Instruction systems, program loading, memory management, addressing, external events, multitasking, synchronization, transaction processing, external devices and their management are considered, file systems, security and other issues required for training specialists in the field of computer science and computer technology.

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P.S. The text is written in living Great Russian language. Each chapter is equipped with a killer epigraph.