Operating System Design: The Xinu Approach, Second Edition

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Operating System Design: The Xinu Approach, Second Edition is a popular book that teaches readers how an operating system works and how to build one comprehensively and logically. This updated edition removes the mystery from operating system design and puts all the material in a systemic discipline, making it easy to understand. The book presents a hierarchical design paradigm that organizes major operating system components in a simple and understandable way.

Operating System Design: The Xinu Approach, Second Edition is a step-by-step guide that assists in the construction of a traditional process-based operating system using practical, straightforward primitives. The book gives readers the nuts and bolts of implementing primitives into an operating system and is incredibly helpful for teaching practical knowledge of operating systems.

The book begins by providing readers with the bare machine and then guides them through the design and implementation of Xinu, a small, compact operating system that supports numerous functions ranging from network communication, local and remote file systems, a shell, and device-independent I/O functions. Additionally, the Xinu code runs on multiple hardware platforms.

The second edition of Operating System Design: The Xinu Approach has been fully rewritten to compare operating systems for RISC and CISC processors. The book is hands-on, practical, and encourages experimentation. It provides updated code all around and has examples for two low-cost experimenter boards namely, BeagleBone Black from ARM and Galileo from Intel.

Details of the book:

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC; 2nd edition (June 30, 2020)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 702 pages
• ISBN-10: 0367575930
• ISBN-13: 978-0367575939
• Item Weight: 3.22 pounds
• Dimensions: 7.6 x 1.5 x 9.9 inches