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I think 'tomes' is where it's at these days. An operating system covers quite a lot these days so a short book would either skip a lot of topics or be very sha

by IcePic 8y ago

I think 'tomes' is where it's at these days. An operating system covers quite a lot these days so a short book would either skip a lot of topics or be very shallow in the specifics and the specifics is very much at the core of coding an OS. You need to know a lot of the environment it runs in, so it becomes detailed rather quickly.

aportnoy 8y ago
> a short book would either skip a lot of topics or be very shallow in the specifics and the specifics is very much at the core of coding an OS I'm ok with that! I'm not planning to write an OS, just want to have a programmer's mental model of how an OS works.