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The most famous suppressed book in computer history! * Used as an Operating System textbook at MIT"After 20 years, this is still the best expostion of the workings of a 'real' operating system." --- Ken Thompson (Developer of the UNIX operating system)After years of suppression (as trade secrets) by various…
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1 author picked Lions' Commentary on Unix as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The previous books all cover programming at the user level – how to write regular programs for a Unix / Linux system. But what about the operating system itself?
This classic work explains the operating system code of the 6th Edition Unix system, which ran on Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-11 systems. If you want to learn the basics of operating system implementation by reading real, working code, this is the place to start.
This is worth reading, even if you never intend to write kernel code, since an understanding of how the operating system works makes it easier…
From Arnold's list on for learning the Zen of Unix.
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