Description: This book describes, in a simple series of steps, how to construct a production-quality runtime system. This includes powerful features like TCP/IP networking, interfacing to native code, and synchronization primitives. Everything that you would expect from a commercial runtime system is presented in explicit detail. This includes the source code and documentation for a full set of development tools (like a bytecode assembler, symbolic debugger, and binary analyzer). There is also an extended discussion of how the book's virtual machine can be ported to other platforms. To this end, the author offers a critical path analysis of the development process so that the reader can build their own virtual machine. This is followed by a critical path analysis of the procedures necessary to build an entire operating system! The author obviously knows what he is doing and is coming from a heavy 80x86 background. There are several points in the book where the author discusses actual hardware ..
ISBN:
1556229038
Release Date:
March, 2002
List Price:
$41.97
Author:
Bill Blunden
Publisher:
Wordware Publishing
Last Updated:
06/26/2003
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