Talk:MINIX 3

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[edit] Citation

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[edit] Any Book there which teaches step-by-step coding of OS (e.g. Minix/Minix-3)

Over time I have been looking for a book which can guide say a C/C++ programmer to write his/her own simple OS. Normally books only discuss the various modules(Memory Management, Process Management etc) and stop at that, in case of book on Minix by Andrew S. Tanenbaum it supplied the source code but didn't devote chapters on writing part of the souce code. Any such book available somewhere or is there a plan for the same on Wikibook/Wikiversity. Vjdchauhan 10:50, 4 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Contradiction

The drivers do not have access to the I/O port space and cannot issue I/O instructions directly. Instead, they must make kernel calls giving a list of I/O ports to write to and the values to be written. [...]

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In turn, the file server gets disk I/O performed by sending messages to the disk driver, which actually controls the disk. [...]

These two statements seem to contradict themselves. --Abdull (talk) 23:26, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

They're not. Message sending has nothing to do with I/O ports. (Anonymous) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.186.50.98 (talk) 11:55, 29 April 2008 (UTC)