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An Outline of a Course on Operating System Principles

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The Origin of Concurrent Programming
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In 1970 the author began writing a comprehensive textbook on operating system principles. This is a description of its structure and how far it had progressed a year later.

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Hansen, P.B. (1972). An Outline of a Course on Operating System Principles. In: Hansen, P.B. (eds) The Origin of Concurrent Programming. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3472-0_7

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