At a glance, this looks to be the most gloriously valuable thing I've seen in eons. Due to the software industry's resounding success at canceling out the resou

At a glance, this looks to be the most gloriously valuable thing I've seen in eons. Due to the software industry's resounding success at canceling out the resounding successes of the hardware industry, causing veritable supercomputers to groan under the weight of such complex tasks as displaying a character in a timely manner after I type it, I plan to spend my retirement years reinventing the whole stack from scratch, Terry A. Davis style. It's my way of seeking justice for all the times I had to go get a coffee while my OS renamed a folder or the browser struggled to return to usable state after I foolishly risked scrolling the page. I usually conclude that the only sane way to do this would be to build on top of a bare-bones linux kernel, but perhaps something in this book will persuade me to set even less realistic goals. At any rate, looks like a fantastic resource!