Resources on the Web

 Directly Course Related

• Intel Architecture Manual:

  1. Basic Architecture

  2. Instruction Set

  3. Systems Programming

• IA-32 Systems Programmer Manual (Chapter 6)

• ELF File Format Documantation

• Bochs Debugging

• GeekOS Educational Operating System

• Bochs  x86 (IA-32) emulator

• CYGWIN Unix environment emulator

• SourceForge Open Source Software Development Website

Commercial Operating Systems

• Linux (Redhat, Slackware, Debian/GNU, Mandrake)

• FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD

• BSD/OS (BSDI)

• Solaris

• AIX

• Tru64 Unix

• Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows NT

• Mac OS X

Educational Operating Systems

• Nachos, Educational Operating System, Berkeley.

• A Road Map through Nachos, Duke University.

• Nachos Resource Page, Dike University.

• Nachos Info, Columbia University.

• Nachos Internals, Oregon Health and Science University.

• Minix, Eduacational Operating System.

• EduOS

History

• The creation of Unix Operating System

• History of Windows

Other

• Operating System Technical Comparision

• The Operating System Resource Center

• A Catalog of Operating Systems

• Operating Systems Projects and OS-related research

• Brad Appleton's Operating Systems Links