OPERATING SYSTEM DESIGN VOL. I:
THE XINU APPROACH
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
Our little systems have their day.
Chapter 2: An Overview of the Machine and Run-Time Environment
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Chapter 3: List and Queue Manipulation
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I've got a little list...
Chapter 4: Scheduling and Context Switching
What is called a sincere work is one that
is endowed with enough strength to give
reality to an illusion.
Chapter 5: More Process Management
When men willingly suspend fear, science flourishes.
Chapter 6: Process Coordination
The future belongs to him who knows how to wait.
Chapter 7: Message Passing
The message of history is clear:
the past lies before us.
Chapter 8: Memory Management
Memory is the ghost of experience.
Chapter 9: Interrupt Processing
The joy of music should never be interrupted
by a commercial.
Chapter 10: Real-Time Clock Management
We haven't the time to take our time.
Chapter 11: Device Independent Input and Output
We have been left so much to our own devices - after
a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to
other people's.
Chapter 12: An Example Device Driver"
It's hard to find a good driver these days, one with
character and style.
Chapter 13: System Initialization
Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we
escape their end.
Chapter 14: A Data Link Communication Driver
Thinking means connecting things, and stops
if they cannot be connected.
Chapter 15: High-Level Memory Management and Message Passing
Yea, from the table of my memory
I'll wipe away all fond trivial records.
Chapter 16: Frame-Level Network Communication
We never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk,
that he might make the message clear for them.
Chapter 17: A Disk Driver
For my purpose holds...
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Chapter 18: File Systems
Filing is concerned with the past;
anything you actually need to see again
has to do with the future.
Chapter 19: Exception Handling and Support Routines
I never make exceptions.
An exception disproves the rule.
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapter 20: System Configuration
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.