Operating System Design: The XINU Approach (v. 1) 1st Edition

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An important two-volume series, the first volume describes each step of the design and decision making process, while Volume II adds internetworking and user interface software. Professional software programmers can learn how protocol software fits into an operating system and how VAX software works as well.

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DOUGLAS COMER is a professor at Purdue University where he teaches popular computer networking courses. He also teaches hundreds of professionals and diverse audiences around the world each year about he Internet. He has written a widely acclaimed and extremely popular series of books on networking and the Internet. He was one of the researchers who contributed to the formation of the Internet in the late 1970s and 1980s. He has served on the Internet Architecture Board, the group responsible for guiding development of the Internet, and is a Fellow of the ACM. He wrote this book in response to everyone who has asked him for an explanation of the Internet that is both technically correct and easily understood.

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Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: Pearson; 1 edition (November 11, 1983)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0136375391
ISBN-13: 978-0136375395
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.2 x 9.3 inches
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Great manual on simple OS design

ByRob Sheareron June 1, 2000

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This book does what no nother OS book has attempted: walk the reader through the implementation of a complete operating system from the hardware up. The full source code for the complete OS is included.
While this book does not cover many of the more advanced concepts (including virtual memory and memory protection; the hardware considered does not support such features) it does successfully demonstrate how the whole system fits together. The book is very accessible and is suitable for readers who have only application-level programming experience.
I strongly recommend reading this book cover to cover and then purchasing a more advanced book (such as _Modern Operating Systems_ by Tanenbaum) as a reference to sophisticated features.

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XINU is a marvelous operating system for embedded computers.

ByBill Drissel (drissel@usa.net)on November 4, 1997

Format: Hardcover

This book is a college-level text that explains and documents XINU, a compact, robust operating system. The code for every function appears in the book embedded in explanatory text. The author exposes his design choices and the reasons behind them. Exercises encourage thinking about alternative methods and added features. I used XINU for a very demanding real-time system. I found it to be capable and robust. The superb documentation found in the book gave confidence to write several device drivers for some peculiar peripherals. This the best of the dozen or so books on operating systems that I've read.

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Disappointing but informative...I take back that statement.

ByPaul Belikianon September 11, 2001

Format: Paperback

For the most part this book is informative. If you have no idea of how a basic Operating System functions, or what it's responsibilities are, then this book will definitely clue you in. However, this book seemed to fall short of what the writers promised. For example, the version of XINU described in this book boots from DOS. I am suspicious of any operating system that boots from another operating system and then uses the services of it...it reminds me of Microsoft Windows 3.1. The OS also uses and relies on some of the PC's BIOS routines and services. While that technique makes the OS portable on different PCs, it limits its use only to PCs and hides a lot of operations that (in my opinion) should be shown. After reading it a few times, I found that the book was quite helpful after all. The OS has been ported to many other CPU's. The full source code can be found on the internet. The OS is quite powerful but still is simple (I was able to port the code to run on a 68010 project of mine; seeing the ported versions and the book's theory was enough to guide me). A decent book, it doesn't describe an operating system 'from the ground up', but comes close to it. Sure there are other operating systems out there with open source, but how many of those tell you what each function of the code does and what role these functions play in a OS?

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Great book to learn Operating System

ByAmazon Customeron September 10, 2001

Format: Hardcover

Xinu is a beautiful OS and this book is a very
readable description of Xinu. Xinu with its threads
and micro kernel architecture is very suitable for
embedded applications and it has TCP/IP stack too.
Xinu is not a toy OS or even merely an
educational OS. I personally ported Xinu to an R3041
(MIPS) based board for an industrial application and
it worked very well. Hats off to Comer and others at
Purdue for giving Xinu to the world.

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Must have for your toolbox

ByTom H. Prohaszkaon January 27, 2007

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The text provides insight into the structure of many OS's, which can easily be used to understand other systems. It's clear and simple to understand, even though it's circa 1983! A must have for anyone working with embedded OS. Search the web for full source, which is readily available. The section on drivers and interfacing is especially usefull.

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Excellent book for embedded goodies

ByJ. Van Der Merweon January 18, 2006

Format: Hardcover

Embedded processor are becoming more powerfull and popular. Even a small embedded processor can compete with the first PC's. Because of this, there is a great demand for OS's for these processors. This is were Xinu comes in (Full multitasking kernel, filesystem, semaphores, timers, device drivers...) and best of all, it is not resource hungry (<12k flash with a minimum of 4K ram).

Bottom line is that this is an excellent book to teach you the basic's of OS's. This book is worth having..

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Excellent resource for the homebrew OS developer!

ByJ. Cornutton December 12, 2008

Format: Hardcover

This book explains the core concepts of operating system development in great detail. This is an excellent read and the source code is actually readable. This helped me out a *ton* when learning about multi-tasking.

I'd recommend this book to CS majors, hobby/homebrew operating system developers, and anyone with an interest of how operating systems work and how they are developed.

I also recommend the next volume of this book (Inter-Networking).

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A classic on operating system design.

ByChuckon December 31, 2013

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Doug Comer is one of the best at breaking down complicated concepts into smaller, easy to understand pieces. A must read for anybody serious about learning the intricacies of operating system design.

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