An appendix covers how to write your own operating system for RISC-V in about 1,000 lines of code. Don’t speak Japanese? An English version is available free on the Web and on GitHub.

As well as a wealth of detailed information about how to write an operating system, Tanenbaum's book came with the source code for a small study system called Minix.

The Apple Lisa, released in 1983, was one of the first personal computers to come equipped with a graphical user interface, and soon the operating ...

The Code Underneath the Code A modern computer's EFI, like BIOS in older computers, is the embryonic code that tells a computer how to launch its own operating system.