October 2001
Beginner
1024 pages
25h 8m
English
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There was once a time when there were two kinds of operating systems: those that were designed for networks, and those that weren't. The former category was dominated by mainframe-class UNIX flavors such as AIX, IRIX, Digital UNIX, BSDI, and more- specialized systems such as Novell NetWare and VMS. The latter category consisted of consumer-level desktop operating systems such as Windows and Mac OS. The two types of systems had very little in common, but the biggest architectural difference was that the network operating systems ...
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