Reading rank 394
Operating Systems: Design and Implementation
, subject: Operating systems, Unix, Minix
A book Linus Torvalds credited with helping spark his move from learning systems to building one.
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About the book
Andrew S. Tanenbaum pairs operating-system principles with a concrete implementation in MINIX, showing how processes, memory, file systems, and other core components fit together.
Why read it
Best if you want to understand the kind of technical book Linus Torvalds associated with his transition from young programmer to operating-system builder.
Key themes
- Formative technical reading
- From study to building
Evidence and original sources
This record is supported by 1 public evidence rows linked to original Founders episodes.
- Linus Torvalds (Creator of Linux) — David reads Linus's account of the book that shaped him most as a young programmer — Andrew Tanenbaum's Operating Systems: Design and Implementation — crediting it with sparking his shift toward building his own OS.
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