Book Recommendation

[ACK]

Hey, I was referred to your forum from a user of another. I am looking into creating an operating system and instead of re-typing all of the details again please see this thread: http://www.visualbasicforum.com/showthr ... adid=25337

I am looking for a book that will deal with the concepts of operating systems, if it is any help to choosing a recommendation I am a visual learner. As a result graphics and diagrams would aide me greatly!

[hrr]

A great book for OS programming is :
"Operating Systems - Design & Implementation 2nd Edition" by Andrew Tanenbaum & Albert Woodhull. It is the same book used by the creator of Linux. It comes with a CD which contains the source & binaries of MINIX 2.0. The book also contains printed source-code of MINIX. The book is good for beginners as well as experienced programmers.

[K.J.]

Not a book recomendation, but a "how-is-this-book" question(since this post is about books).

Is Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum a good book?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... 06-5630356

Thanks in advance,
K.J.

[Tim]

I can't admit to having read it, but I flicked through it in the bookshop the other day. It looks like an updated version of OS:D&I: no Minix source code, but a lot of details on modern operating systems.

[ACK]

I will get a copy of Operating Systems - Design & Implementation 2nd Edition ASAP.

Thank you for your recommendations.

By the way, this is a great community for OS developement!

[crazybuddha]

Beware. There are two very distinct issues in hobby OS development. One is controlling the hardware. The other is "higher level" issues of task control. You will experience a lot of frustration tackling the second without having a solid codebase for the first.

The problem (in my view) with learning from *nixes is that they are very much concerned with process control. I say start with monotasking DOS and learn to love the idiosyncracies of Intel architecture.

In either case, there are a ton of examples out there to be learned from.