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Operating Systems Design and Implementation
by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull
ISBN: 0131429388
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awesome_dude · 2026-01-21 · Original thread
Grab Tannenbaum's "Operating Systems, Design and Implementation" - aka "The Minix book" - you will LOVE the book, and walk away having an genuine understanding of what's going on under the hood in a kernel, and be able to write your own

Amazon link https://www.amazon.com/Operating-Systems-Design-Implementati...

maaku · 2013-11-19 · Original thread
Get the Minix book:

http://www.amazon.com/Operating-Systems-Design-Implementatio...

aray · 2013-08-25 · Original thread
Tanenbaum's ineffable "Operating Systems Design and Implementation" and MINIX (a learning OS) existed then, and was what Linus Torvalds studied before creating Linux:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131429388