On Wednesday, 08/30/2006 at 03:49 AST, "Daniel A. McLaughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Introduction to the New Mainframe: Z/OS Basics (redbook) and NOT the > "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe"
LOL. "Simplest terms". No kidding there! I suggest Madnick & Donovan's "Operating Systems" textbook (McGraw-Hill, 1974), the one everyone seemed to use back in college in the Good Ol' Days. (Remember? Icky yellow book? Appearing in garage sales all over town these days?) According to them, an operating system manages memory, processors, devices, and information. "Information" in their model is the file system. They discuss 3 ways of viewing the operating system: - resource view - process view - Hierarchical/extended machine view No discussion of transaction systems or databases (those are applications), but lots of talk about how OS/MVT and VM/370 are structured. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
