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Master operation system development. FreeDOS Kernel explains the construction and operation of Pat Villani's DOS-C - a highly portable, single threaded operating system. Written in C and with system calls similar to MS-DOS, the FreeDOS kernel provides an
Teach yourself the essentials of operating system design and development with this guide to FreeDOS -- a highly portable single threaded OS! You'll learn about kernel architecture, file systems, memory management, the API, and the command line interpreter. FreeDOS is an excellent source code base for experimenting.
About the Author
Pat Villani has developed applications ranging from avionics and guidance to computer peripherals. His special interests are C applications and embedded control systems. He received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York.