Maybe not revolutionary, but I think this article about static binary translation is a great introduction to the topic: http://www.gtoal.com/sbt/ http://www.gt

Maybe not revolutionary, but I think this article about static binary translation is a great introduction to the topic: http://www.gtoal.com/sbt/ http://www.gtoal.com/sbt/ (see also the "Virtual Machines" book by Smith and Nair, ISBN-13 978-1558609105, if you are interested in this topic). I can also recommend John Lions' "Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System" - https://warsus.github.io/lions-/ https://warsus.github.io/lions-/, Douglas Comer's Xinu (https://xinu.cs.purdue.edu https://xinu.cs.purdue.edu) as well as Niklaus Wirth's "Compiler Construction" (https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/CompilerConstruction/CompilerConstruction1.pdf https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/CompilerConstruction/Compil...) and Project Oberon (http://www.projectoberon.com http://www.projectoberon.com).