System Software Resource Page

Addenda

• Oberon FS (txt)
• Method and Interface Tables: A Short Summary (txt) (updated 2004-02-07)
• User Space Memory Allocation Example: Linux (txt)

Additional resources

• Books:
  • Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, 2nd ed. , Prentice Hall 2001 (ISBN 0130926418)
    Good and comprehensive handling of classic topics in the system software area
  • Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne, Operating Systems Concepts, 6th ed. , John Wiley & Sons 2002 (ISBN 0471250600)
    Good and comprehensive handling of classic topics in the system software area
  • Charles Crowley, Operating Systems, A Design-Oriented Approach , Mc Graw-Hill 1997 (ISBN 0256151512)
  • Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Distributed Operating Systems , Prentice Hall 1995 (ISBN 0-13-219908-4)
  • Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Structured Computer Organization, 4th ed. , Prentice Hall 1999 (ISBN 0-13-095990-1)
• Run-Time Support:
  • Steven Muchnick, Advanced Compiler Design Implementation , Morgan Kaufmann 1997(ISBN 1-55860-320-4)
    Chapter 5: Runtime Support: Register Usage; Local Stack Frame; Parameter-Passing Disciplines; Procedure Prologues, Epilogues, Calls and Returns.
  • Drew, Gough und Ledermann, Implementing Zero Overhead Exception Handling, Technical Report 95-12, Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, 1995 (cached pdf, cached ps)
  • John R. Levine Linkers & Loaders Morgan Kaufmann 1999 (ISBN 1-55860-496-0)
• Memory Management and Garbage Collection:
  • Mel Gorman, Understanding The Linux Virtual Memory Manager ( html , pdf )
  • www.memorymanagement.org
  • M. Dillon, Design Elements of the FreeBSD VM System
  • Intel Corporation, Intel® Itanium® Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 2: System Architecture, Revision 2.1 , October 2002 (local copy (8.1MB); Chapter 4, Addressing and Protection).
  • Paul Wilson, Uniprocessor garbage collection techniques , Proceedings of the Memory Management, International Workshop, Saint Malo, France, Sep 1992 (postscript 764KB)
  • Garbage collection in Oberon
  • Garbage collection in .NET (pdf)
  • 50% rule: Knuth, D. E., The Art of Computer Programming , Vol I: Fundamental Algorithms; Sect. 2.5
• Concurrency:
  • Gregory Andrews, Concurrent Programming: Principles and Practice , Addison-Wesley 1991 (ISBN 0-8053-0086-4)
  • Jean Bacon, Concurrent Systems: An Integrated Approach to Operating Systems, Database, and Distributed Systems, 2nd ed. , Addison-Wesley 1997 (ISBN 0-201-17767-6)
• Operating Systems:
  • Niklaus Wirth, Jürg Gutknecht, Project Oberon - The Design of an Operating System and Compiler. Addison Weslay 1992 (ISBN 0-201-54428-8)
    Commented description of the Oberon operating system, out of print
  • Pieter Muller, The active object system design and multiprocessor implementation Diss., Technische Wissenschaften ETH Zürich, Nr. 14755, 2002 (pdf)
  • Pieter Muller, Aos Multiprocessor Kernel , presentation
    overview of the Aos kernel.
  • Tim Lindholm, Frank Yellin, The Java Virtual Machine Specification, 2nd ed. , Addison-Wesley 1999 (ISBN 0201432943)
    (downlad in HTML 325KB)
  • ECMA, ECMA 335: Common Language Infrastructure (CLI)
  • Maurice Bach, Design of the UNIX Operating System , Prentice Hall 1987 (ISBN 0-13-201799-7)
    commented description of the AT&T Unix System V.
  • Andrew Tanenbaum, Albert Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design And Implementation, 2nd ed. , Prentice Hall 1997 (ISBN 0-13-638677-6)
    commented description of the Minx system.
  • Linux Kernel Source Code (http://lxr.linux.no)
• Object models:
  • Jürg Gutknecht, Active Oberon for .NET: An Exercise in Object Model Mapping ,
    Proceedings of Babel'01; Nick Benton and Andrew Kennedy Editors; Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 59, Elsevier Science Publishers
• Oberon:
  • Active Oberon language (slides)
  • Oberon Home Page
  • List of books about Oberon
  • Download ETH Oberon
• Varia:
  • G. Nutt, Operating Systems Projects using Windows NT , Addison-Wesley 1999 (ISBN 0-201-47708-4)