The Operating Systems Handbook [Hardcover]

Bob DuCharme (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1994

In today's multivendor client/server environments, it is essential that computer professionals know how to do their job across a variety of platforms and systems. This book should help readers who are experts at using one of the five most popular mainframe and mid-range operating systems become skilled users of the other four. Included are concise tutorials, step-by-step examples and quick-reference material, making the work suitable for system administrators, programmers and casual users.

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"To become network-centric-ready, you can wade through all the emerging books on Java, variously known as C++-(etc.) and "C++ with free condoms." A more practical approach might be to read Bob DuCharme's The Operating System Handbook (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994), especially if your career has been restricted to the so-called operating systems of the PC persuasion. duCharme's spirited thesis is that the mainfram arena is not only undead but also is provably expanding and offering ever-richer job opportunities. After du study of The Operating System Handbook, you can add "Working knowledge of UNIX, OpenVMS, OS/400, VM/CMS, and MVS" to your resume and name your salary floor" -- Unix Review, 6/96

Product Details

• Hardcover: 390 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies (January 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070178917
• ISBN-13: 978-0070178915
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,194,846 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the definitive field guide to dinosaur mainframes, September 28, 1999

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Timothy Horrigan "Tim Horrigan" (Durham, NH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Operating Systems Handbook (Hardcover)

This is an excellent overview of various obsolete mainframe operating systems (not to mention Unix, which is not obsolete.) You know the systems I mean: the ones you access using those ugly old green and black screens in a dusty corner of your IT department's offices, the ones with the humongous databases hidden behind arcane text-based software. The potentially dry material is greatly moistened by DuCharme's witty yet understated writing style.

There are still a lot of those dinosaur mainframes still roaming the earth, Y2K notwithstanding, so this field guide is still useful, a full half-decade after it was published.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good overview of major O/Ses. Still applicable., September 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Operating Systems Handbook (Hardcover)

If you want to have a good overview of all the major mini/mainframe OSes, this is the book. The absence of NT and the inclusion of VM is questionable but this could be addressed by a 2nd edition. If you are looking for an in-depth discussion of the internals of each system this is not your book. But if you need to navigate multiple OSes in a multiplatform environment this is your best bet.