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First edition was a great book. For anyone interested in other OS dev books, I highly recommend: - Design and Implementation of the UNIX Operating System (Ma
by hadoukenio 13y ago
First edition was a great book. For anyone interested in other OS dev books, I highly recommend:
- Design and Implementation of the UNIX Operating System (Maurice J. Bach)
- Modern Operating Systems (Andrew S. Tanenbaum)
- Operating Systems Design and Implementation (Andrew S. Tanenbaum)
- Linux Core Kernel Commentary (Scott Andrew Maxwell)
- matt_heimer 13y agoMr. Tanenbaum seems like a nice guy. I gave away a copy of Operating Systems Design and Implementation for my osdev website a couple years ago and asked him if he'd sign a copy if I sent it to him. He apologized for not having spare copies to give away and he paid to ship the book even though I told him I would.
- wink 13y agoMoreover there were hardly any tech books besides those 2 by Tanenbaum that I thorougly enjoyed reading as much. Not quite like a novel, but surely not as dry as usual. Queue mildly relevant rant: I've never seen a German technical author hit the casual tone that American authors are a lot better at. Originally German tech books usually are as fun reading as manuals to a device and not entertaining at all...
- kriro 13y agoOr if you are a bit less technical "The Elements of Computing Systems". A very good book for the "I taught myself how to program and now I'm curious about OSdev" crowd. [adding to the off topic rant: I generally agree but off the top of my head "Schrödinger programmiert Java" and the entire Schrödinger... series are decent and hit the typical US-style tone. Not sure if you count a programming book as a technical book though :)]