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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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.