Burgess Richard A. Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System

Sams Publishing, 1995. — 800 p. — ISBN: 978-0672306556.Computer programmers and software engineers work with computer operating systems every day. They use them, they work with them, they even work “around” them if that’s what it takes to get their jobs done. If you’re an experienced programmer, this book is willing to bet you’ve pondered changes you would make to the operating systems you use, or you’ve even thought about what you would build and design into an operating system if you were to write your own.In this book is discussed the major topics of designing your own OS: the tasking model, the memory model, programming interfaces, hardware interface, portability issues, size, and speed.