Operating system principles
by Per Brinch Hansen · first published 1973
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The main theme of the book is that operating systems are not radically different from other programs. The difficulties encountered in the design of efficient, reliable operating systems are the same as those one encounters in the design of other large programs, such as compilers or payroll programs. This book tries to give students of computer science and professional programmers a general understanding of operating systems - the programs that enable people to share computers efficiently.
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"Operating System Principles" (1973) by Per Brinch Hansen. A full microkernel OS (remake of RC-4000 from 1967) written in a concurrent dialect of Pascal, that also manages to make do without hardware protection support.
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