Talk:Operating System Design

I am all mixed up. I went to a place I thought Operating System Design was going to start and posted a warning that I was going to mess around in major way. I still intend to. But what is wrong with the links? DKleinecke 20:36, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Book Subject
Currently, this book provides Wikipedialike descriptions of the components which make an OS. All good and well, but I'd like to see some more system specific (say x86 (IA32) and/or AMD64, may be other systems) information about the design of the components. Specifics about boot loading for BIOS and for EFI, segmented memory model which is x86 specific, that kind of things. Could the book be about designing (and writing?) an OS for common architecures, or should it be just a collection of wikipedic articles, as general as possible? Virtlink (talk) 15:11, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Operating System
Currently Operating System redirects to this page, Operating System Design. I suspect most people who come to Wikibooks and type "Operating System" are really looking for something more like A Neutral Look at Operating Systems. Should I change the redirect to go to that book? Or would some sort of "disambiguation page" be better? --DavidCary (talk) 04:44, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

merge
I suggest merging Operating Systems Development into Operating System Design. I hope that one book can be useful to both the target audience of "people who want to build a custom OS as a hobby and want a few hands-on, practical HOWTO tips" as well as the target audience of "people curious about how the OS they are using works, who might perhaps write application software that uses features such as multi-tasking processes and threads, but would never dream of actually changing the OS itself, and don't want to know obscure details about "kernel-level debugging" and other things that their machine will never do".

Feel free to try to persuade me that these audiences are so different that they need two separate books. --DavidCary (talk) 02:34, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

I think the two are related topics, but each might still merit its own book if authors can be found. I would think of operating system design as a more theoretical approach to the topic, probably with historical examples from various operating systems, but also heavy on the mathematics of the algorithms involved, while operating system development would assume that the person knew how to design an operating system and showed various and specific examples of how to do it given specific hardware.--Chuck Hoffmann (talk) 04:25, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


 * ✅. The two books have merged. Perhaps someday in the future this book will grow so large that we split it into two books, either along the lines Chuck Hoffmann mentioned or along some other lines. --DavidCary (talk) 23:02, 9 September 2009 (UTC)