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Title: The Operating Systems Handbook: Unix, Openvms, Os/400, Vm, and MVS by Bob Ducharme ISBN: 0-07-017891-7 Publisher: McGraw Hill Text Pub. Date: June, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.50

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: the definitive field guide to dinosaur mainframes
Comment: 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.

Rating: 5
Summary: Very good overview of major O/Ses. Still applicable.
Comment: 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.