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A comment on The little book about OS development (2012) [pdf].

Re:The little book about OS development (2012) [pdf] by amelius on Saturday January 10, 2015 @05:25PM (#8868166)
I think the main part that is missing is an in depth analysis of what we actually want from an OS.

Building an OS from scratch is nice, but I think the requirements may have changed since the 80s. :)

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Re:The little book about OS development (2012) [pdf] by Animats on Saturday January 10, 2015 @09:13PM (#8868766)
Yes. What this book leads you to is a classic UNIX-like OS - drivers in the kernel, a console, paged virtual memory. It doesn't lead you to a microkernel or a hypervisor or a cluster.
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