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Title: A Good Start for the Right Audience
Review: This books is a great introduction to very simplified concepts related to OS design, and gives you code to look at for an extremely primitive 32-bit OS. I think that it's a great starting point, as long as you understand that it is fairly dated, doesn't comport entirely with modern techniques, terminology, and PC hardware. I think by the time you absorb the information in this book, it will demystify the process of writing an OS, but you will also begin to recognize the limitations of the author's approach. I think there's a lot of educational benefit in a very primitive kernel like this one, because it's a lot less daunting than more professional projects.
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