Reading rank 434
Operating Systems: Design and Implementation
, subject: Operating systems, Unix, Minix, 1987
A study of how operating systems are designed and built, and the book that set a young Linus Torvalds on course to write his own.
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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 systems you rely on well enough to consider building your own, and want the book Torvalds credited with starting him down that path.
Key themes
- From studying a system to building one
- Reading that lands early
Evidence and original sources
Source: official Founders episode — #176
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.