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Modern Operating Systems, 2nd edition

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This widely-read classic, now in its fourth edition, provides the ideal introduction to computer architecture. It covers the topic in an easy-to-understand way, bottom up. There is a chapter on digital logic for beginners, followed by chapters on microarchitecture, the instruction set architecture level, operating systems, assembly language, and parallel computer architectures.

Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, 2nd edition

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