Building Your Own Operating System?

sonictooth asks: "I have dreams of writing a toy operating system, as I know some people have already done in college. Unfortunately, I don't have that opportunity. I was wondering what books (as there are so many) and methods people [have used], either in college or on their own. Amazon is littered with books from varying authors, Tanenbaum in particular, and there are both positive and negative reviews of his books. Does anyone recommend a simple book to walk you through the early stages, and then explain the more complex theories later on."

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Re:Here's a list for ya..

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Think about writing applications that communicate using shared memory pages. If one app writes a page and then instructs the kernel to map that page into another process, the kernel can do that rediculously fast.

On modern hardware, in fact, it's so fast that it's often faster than the speed of spelling.

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