Systems Programming I - Resources

Lecture Notes, Example Code, etc.

• SP1 lecture notes Course password required for access.

• SP1 pub directory

• My collected hardware documentation

Systems Programming Resources

• The Linux^® Programming Interface:

  • No Starch Press web page
  • Michael Kerrisk's web page
  • Especially useful: the errata list and the browsable source code repository.

• Solaris^™ Systems Programming:

  • Pearson informIT web pages for the hardcover and paperback versions
  • Rich Teer's web page

• Advanced Programming in the UNIX^® Environment:

  • Addison Wesley web page
  • Authors' web page

• Advanced UNIX® Programming:

  • Addison Wesley web page
  • Marc Rochkind's web page

C Resources

• Pointers on C:

  • Addison Wesley web page
  • Ken Reek's web page

• The Development of the C Language, Dennis M. Ritchie

x86 Assembly Language Resources

• Professional Assembly Language textbook web sites: Wrox Press web page

• Protected Mode Software Architecture: Addison Wesley web page (part of Addison Wesley's PC System Architecture series)

• Local copies of a number of assembly language and assembler manuals

• Assembly Language Sources
  Maintained by Kip Irvine, author of Assembly Language for Intel-Based Computers; a nice collection of links to web sites for textbooks (including his), web sites with lots of resources about Intel CPUs, etc.

• Assembly Language (x86) Resources
  Maintained by Michael Somos; another list of links

• x86 Processor Information
  Huge collection of x86-related documents, but some links (e.g., to Intel documents) aren't usable

Miscellaneous Other Resources

• The Bell System Technical Journal special issue on The UNIX Time-Sharing System (Volume 57, Issue 6 Part 2, July-August 1978)

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