A book list for operating system kernel developers and device driver writers

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Worked examples of operating system kernels

• Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1987), Operating Systems: Design and implementation, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0136373313
• Douglas Comer (1984), Operating System Design: The Xinu Approach, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0136375545
• Douglas Comer (1987), Operating System Design — Volume 2: Internetworking with Xinu, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0136376460
• Pat Villani (1996), FreeDOS Kernel, RD Books, ISBN 0879304367
• Richard A. Burgess (1995), Developing your own 32-bit operating system, Sams, ISBN 0672306557
• Jean J. Labrosse (1999), Micro-C/OS-II: The real-time kernel, Miller-Freeman, ISBN 0879305436

"Internals" books analysing existing operating systems

OS/2

• Gordon Letwin (1988), Inside OS/2, Microsoft Press, ISBN 1556151179
• H.M. Deitel and M.S. Kogan (1992), The design of OS/2, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201548895

VMS

• Kirby McCoy (1990), VMS File System Internals, Digital Press, ISBN 013931783X

Unices

• Maurice J. Bach (1987), The design of the Unix® operating system, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0132017571
• Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (1988), The design and implementation of the 4.3BSD operating system, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201061961
• Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (1996), The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD operating system, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201549794
• Curt Schimmel (1994), UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201633388
• Berny Goodheart and James Cox (1994), The Magic Garden Explained, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0130981389
• David A. Kelly (1996), AIX/6000 internals and architecture, McGraw Hill, ISBN 0070340617
• Uresh Vahalia (1996), Unix Internals: The new frontiers, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0131019082
• Steve D. Pate (1996), UNIX Internals: A practical approach, Addison Wesley, ISBN 020187721X
• John Lions (1977,1996), Lions' Commentary on Unix 6th Edition (with source code), Peer-To-Peer, ISBN 0573980137
• Jim Mauro and Richard MacDougall (2001), Solaris Internals: Core kernel architecture, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0130224960
• Amit Singh (2007), MacOS 10 Internals: A systems approach, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0321278542

Windows

• Helen Custer (1993), Inside Windows NT Microsoft Press, ISBN 155615481X
• David A. Solomon (1998), Inside Windows NT (2nd edition), Microsoft Press, ISBN 1572316772
• Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon, and Alex Ionescu (2009), Windows Internals (5th edition), Microsoft Press, ISBN 0735625303
• Prasad Dabak, Sandeep Phadke, and Milind Borate (1999), Undocumented Windows NT, IDG Books, ISBN 0764545698
• Stan Mitchell (1997) Inside the Windows 95 File System, O'Reilly, ISBN 156592200X
• Matt Pietrek (1995), Windows 95 System Programming Secrets, IDG, ISBN 156843186

Linux

• Michael Beck, Harald Böhme, Robert Magnus, Mirko Dziadzka, and Ulrich Kunitz (1998), Linux Kernel Internals, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201331438
• John O'Gorman (2003), The Linux Process Manager, Wiley, ISBN 0470847719

Miscellaneous

• Dominic Giampaolo (1999), Practical file system design with the Be file system, Morgan Kaufman, ISBN 1558604979
• Dave Parkinson et al. (1987), The "Kickstart" Guide to the Amiga, Ariadne Software Ltd, ISBN 0951292102

Device driver and general kernel development

• Raymond Westwater (1989), Writing OS/2 Device Drivers, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201522349
• Art Baker (1997), The Windows NT Device Driver Book, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0131844741
• Walter Oney (1999), Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model, Microsoft Press, ISBN 0735605882
• Rajeev Nagar (1997), Windows NT file system internals, O'Reilly, ISBN 1565922492
• Edward N. Dekker and Joseph M. Newcomer (1999), Developing Windows NT Device Drivers, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201695901
• Alessandro Rubini (1998), Linux device drivers, O'Reilly, ISBN 1565922921
• Robert Love (2010), Linux Kernel Development, Pearson Education, ISBN 0672329468

Operating systems theory

• Milan Milenkovic (1987), Operating Systems: Concepts and Design, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0071005838
• Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1992), Modern Operating Systems, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0135957524
• H.M. Deitel (1990), Operating Systems, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201509393
• William Stallings (2001), Operating systems internals and design principles, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0130319996
• Pradeep K. Sinha (2007), Distributed Operating Systems: Concepts and Design, Prentice Hall, ISBN 9788120313804