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Also, there aren't many OSs that have books to teach you about them, but MINIX does. Operating Systems: Design and Implementation by Andrew Tanenbaum. I suppose
by TallGuyShort 4y ago
Also, there aren't many OSs that have books to teach you about them, but MINIX does. Operating Systems: Design and Implementation by Andrew Tanenbaum. I suppose the value you get for free in MINIX 3, you pay for if you want the book...
- vram22 4y agoThe long flamewar between Linus and Tannenbaum was interesting to read, at least briefly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_d...
- andyjohnson0 4y ago> Operating Systems: Design and Implementation by Andrew Tanenbaum I had a student edition of that book, back in the late 1980s. It had a full listing of the Minix source code as an appendix: fascinating to be able to sit in a comfortable chair and read a large body of code. I referred to it a lot when i was learning C. I'm guessing Minix has got bigger since then though.
- TallGuyShort 4y agoYeah I believe Minix is actually a complete rewrite intended to be more useful in the real world than just a teaching toy (and at that it has been successful). I can't imagine enjoying reading the source code apendix from a book as much as you seemed to have done :D But I did learn a lot from the main text of the book. Pretty hard for me to dive into even a simple hobbyist OS and figure things out from scratch.