The OS Classics

Re:The OS Classics by musicale on Monday December 18, 2023 @11:51PM (#38691956)

Nice to see the Multics book included on the Unix (related) list.

I'd like to see a non-Unix "alternative OS classics" list to supplement the Unix list.

Maybe a non-TCP/IP/Ethernet "alternative network classics" list as well.

Since these are mostly vintage (though nice reads) I'd also like to see a list of "modern (or future) systems classics" as well.

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Re:The OS Classics by pjmlp on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @10:41AM (#38696967)

I would place the Windows Internals book series on that list, BeOS, Mac OS books from Apple (pre-OS X ones), Plan 9 books, Programming Inferno, for example.

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Re:The OS Classics by sillywalk on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:05PM (#38703194)

Bitsavers has a lot of stuff http://bitsavers.org/pdf/

And 1000 bit has lots of brochures and old technical magazines.

https://www.1000bit.it/

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Re:The OS Classics by trealira on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @07:13PM (#38703810)

It's not about any OS in particular, but Per Brinch Hansen has a book called Classic Operating Systems: From Batch Processing To Distributed Systems, which showcases a lot of historically important essays in operating system history. The back of the book says it "includes a bibliography of about 60 operating systems".

You can borrow it on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780387951133/mode/1up

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Re:The OS Classics by musicale on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @04:52PM (#38714120)

Thanks to peer comments for the great suggestions.

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