Also a facinating book called the "developement of the BSD 4.4 operating
system" not much around that talks about non-unix OSes though.
On Tue, 7
Sep 1999, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Does anybody on the list know where some docs, HOWTO's, books,
> > etc are(preferably on the net) on the theories behind OS/kernel
> > development and maybe how to implement them? I'm hoping there's
> > something out there not necassarily on linux but on OS/kernel
> > development in general.
>
> The Minix book[0] is probably as good a place to start as any.
>
> It's quite heavily microkernel-oriented, but that's probably an
> advantage - otherwise it's very easy to forget that all the world
> isn't monolithic Unix.
>
> After that, you might get some more information from looking at
> the LDP's "The Linux Kernel"[1] which wil show you how a lot of
> the stuff in the Minix book is anchored to Linux, and introduce
> some of the more modern bits which the Minix book omits.
>
> Matthew.
>
> [0] "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" by A S Tanenbaum
> [1] http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html
>
>
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