Abstract
In this chapter and the next we attempt to answer the questions
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What is an operating system?
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What does it do?
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Why do we need one?
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Lister, A.M. (1984). Introduction. In: Fundamentals of Operating Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2686-9_1
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