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directly through cross-memory APIs. Similarly, UNIX has the concept of shared
memory functions, and these can be used on UNIX without special authority.
z/VSE cross-memory APIs, however, require the issuing program to have special
authority. These methods allows efficient and secure access to data owned by
others, data owned by the user but stored in another address space for
convenience, and for rapid and secure communication with services like
transaction managers and database managers.
3.11 Summary
An operating system is a collection of programs that manage the internal
workings of a computer system. The operating system taught in this course is
z/VSE, a widely used mainframe operating system. ...