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The little book about OS development

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This text is a practical guide to writing your own x86 operating system. It is designed to give enough help with the technical details while at the same time not reveal too much with samples and code excerpts. We’ve tried to collect parts of the vast (and often excellent) expanse of material and tutorials available, on the web and otherwise, and add our own insights into the problems we encountered and struggled with. This book is not about the theory behind operating systems, or how any specific operating system (OS) works. For OS theory we recommend the book Modern Operating Systems by Andrew Tanenbaum [1]. Lists and details on current operating systems are available on the Internet. The starting chapters are quite detailed and explicit, to quickly get you into coding. Later chapters give more of an outline of what is needed, as more and more of the implementation and design becomes up to the reader, who should now be more familiar with the world of kernel development. At the end of

The little book about OS development The little book about OS development Erik Helin, Adam Renberg 2015-01-19 | Commit: fe83e27dab3c39930354d2dea83f6d4ee2928212 PDF version Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 About the Book 1.2 The Reader 1.3 Credits, Thanks and Acknowledgements 1.4 Contributors 1.5 Changes and Corrections 1.6 Issues and where to get help 1.7 License 2 First Steps 2.1 Tools 2.1.1 Quick Setup 2.1.2 Programming Languages 2.1.3 Host Operating System 2.1.4 Build System 2.1.5 Virtual Machine 2.2 Booting 2.2.1 BIOS 2.2.2 The Bootloader 2.2.3 The Operating System 2.3 Hello Cafebabe 2.3.1 Com

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