Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 390 pages
- Published by: McGraw-Hill Companies June 1994
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0070178917
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0070178915
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Book Dimensions:
9.6 x 7.6 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 2 pounds
Unix Review, 6/96
"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"
Reader Reviews
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.
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