Operating Systems Design and Implementation

Operating Systems: Design and Implementation ISBN 0-13-142938-8 ISBN 978-0136373315 is a computer science textbook written by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, with help from Albert S. Woodhull. The book describes, in detail, the topic of Operating System Designing, It includes Tanenbaum's MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system designed for teaching purposes. Publisher is Prentice Hall (1987). The source code for MINIX was included as part of the original 719 pages of text. Later versions of the three editions also included loadable disks with MINIX.