there is a book, by Tanembau "operating systems" is called.
In this book the author start designing a operating system called Minix
and explain evry step and different possibilities to do a thing.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Gallik" <BillGallik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: operating system and design theory
Wait a minute, aren't those architecture documents for the processor
chips?
That may tell the reader the specific instructions to access various
features of the chip, but will it really offer any OS design?
The problem with trying to find OS design documents is that this
information
will likely be very proprietary. If the desire is to get some idea of
how
an OS might be designed then searching for Unix® or Linux operating
system
design documents would be your best bet because those particular
operating
systems are supposedly "Open Source" and will therefore be more
available.
To this end, I suppose that getting the architecture documents from AMD
or
Intel could be helpful in understanding how the OS code has been
implemented
to take advantage of the features of the chips.
If, on the other hand, you need the design of a specific OS you may need
to
jump through some hoops to get that information from the company that
owns
the rights to that particular OS (i.e., Microsoft Vista will probably not
be
available to you -- or anybody else for that matter).
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