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Books for OS Developers - 2004/10/24 09:55 Hi

Can Any one Suggest Good Books for the OS Developement.
Plz the Language used in the Book must be easy.
Our Professor suggested Operating Systems --- Galvin
ins this book good enough.
i am a beginner and i am very interested in OS Programming please suggest any books

Prudhvi Krishna
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Re: Books for OS Developers - 2004/10/24 12:28 A good book for the concepts is Operating System Concepts 6th Edition (By James L. Peterson and Abraham Silberschatz). However this won't help much on the implementation only the design. (Often older versions of that book can be found in libarys as it's commonly used in computing course's)

Andrew Tanenbaum also has written a few books that are supposed to be good tho I've not read any personally. Examples of his are: Modern Operating systems and Operating systems design and implementation.

I can't think of any more OS dev specific books. All others are more language based. As it's not a popular hobby (in the global sense) book writers and publishers can't justify making many really good implementation books but there are quite a few tutorials and documents on the internet (see this site and the links page on this site)

Daniel

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Re: Books for OS Developers - 2005/04/29 05:23 For OS concepts with code, Operating system development book written by Tanenbaum. For, a clear understanding of i386 hardware, refer 'The indispensable PC hardware book' by Peter Messmer.

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Re: Books for OS Developers - 2005/04/29 09:56 Hello
Tanenbaum actually wrote two books about os development:
- Modern Operating Systems
- Operating Systems: Design and Implementation

I have a copy of the first one and IMHO it's a great ressource to look things up. It covers almost every aspect of an OS and is written in a rather easy to read way. You can find the book's table of contents aswell as a few sample chapters on Tanenbaum's site.
Nevertheless books are only meant to give you the background knowledge needed to write an OS and not to show you how to actually write it. If you're just searching for some example code, tutorials are the better choice..

I've never read the second book, but as far as I know, it leans more towards the implementation and includes several examples from Tanenbaum's own OS Minix.

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gaf

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Re: Books for OS Developers - 2005/10/22 07:32 Operating Systems: Design and Implementation it's very good book that i'm reading now. i have in PDF format

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