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Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System — Structure

• Author: Richard A. Burgess (Sams Publishing, 1995, first edition; ISBN 0-672-30655-7)
• Source: source-file.pdf (772 PDF pages). This is an Internet Archive scan with an OCR text layer and no bookmarks.
• Chapter count: 29 chapters in five Parts, plus front and back matter.
• Page numbers: PDF pages, starting at 1. Printed page N = PDF page N + 22 throughout the body (checked at every chapter start).
• Subject: The design and full source of MMURTL, a message-based, real-time, multitasking micro-kernel OS for 32-bit ISA PCs, along with its DASM assembler and CM32 C compiler.

Reading order	Part	Section	Printed page	Starts on PDF page
Chapter 1	I Introduction	Overview	3	25
Chapter 2	I	General Discussion and Background	13	35
Chapter 3	II Architecture and General Theory	The Tasking Model	25	47
Chapter 4	II	Interprocess Communications	41	63
Chapter 5	II	Memory Management	55	77
Chapter 6	II	The Hardware Interface	81	103
Chapter 7	II	OS Initialization	99	121
Chapter 8	II	Programming Interfaces	115	137
Chapter 9	III MMURTL-Specific Details	Application Programming	129	151
Chapter 10	III	Systems Programming	141	163
Chapter 11	III	The MMURTL Monitor Program	159	181
Chapter 12	III	The Debugger	181	203
Chapter 13	III	Keyboard Service	189	211
Chapter 14	III	File System Service	201	223
Chapter 15	III	API Specification	221	243
Chapter 16	III	MMURTL Sample Software	265	287
Chapter 17	IV The Operating System Source Code	Introduction to the Source Code	327	349
Chapter 18	IV	Kernel Code	335	357
Chapter 19	IV	Memory Management Code	377	399
Chapter 20	IV	Timer Management Code	405	427
Chapter 21	IV	Initialization Code	419	441
Chapter 22	IV	Job Management Code	439	461
Chapter 23	IV	Debugger Code	471	493
Chapter 24	IV	Selected Device Driver Code	497	519
Chapter 25	IV	Keyboard Code	541	563
Chapter 26	IV	Video Code	571	593
Chapter 27	IV	File System Code	591	613
Chapter 28	V Additional Software	DASM: A 32-Bit Intel-Based Assembler	663	685
Chapter 29	V	CM32: A 32-Bit C Compiler	697	719
Back matter	—	Index	719	741

Part divider plates (Part number and title, then a blank verso) sit on the two PDF pages before Chapters 1, 3, 9, 17 and 28. They are folded into those chapters’ source-text.md, so their ranges start two pages before the chapter plate. Titles come from the chapter title plates. The printed Contents says “The OS Initialization” for Chapter 7, but the plate says “OS Initialization”.

Reading note: Parts I–II (Ch 1–8) are general OS design theory. Part III (Ch 9–16) covers MMURTL-specific usage and API. Parts IV–V (Ch 17–29) are mostly annotated source listings, which are better skimmed or used as reference than read for coaching.

Source Text Index

Extracted from source-file.pdf by tools/split_book.py. Read these instead of the PDF. All 772 pages are covered exactly once.

Folder	Section	PDF pages	Pages without extractable text
Front-Matter	Front matter (covers, title, copyright, contents, preface, acknowledgments, about the author)	1–22	none
Chapter-01-Overview	Overview	23–34	23, 24, 25, 34
Chapter-02-General-Discussion-and-Background	General Discussion and Background	35–44	none
Chapter-03-The-Tasking-Model	The Tasking Model	45–62	45, 46, 47
Chapter-04-Interprocess-Communications	Interprocess Communications	63–76	63
Chapter-05-Memory-Management	Memory Management	77–102	77
Chapter-06-The-Hardware-Interface	The Hardware Interface	103–120	103
Chapter-07-OS-Initialization	OS Initialization	121–136	121
Chapter-08-Programming-Interfaces	Programming Interfaces	137–148	137, 148
Chapter-09-Application-Programming	Application Programming	149–162	149, 150, 151
Chapter-10-Systems-Programming	Systems Programming	163–180	163
Chapter-11-The-MMURTL-Monitor-Program	The MMURTL Monitor Program	181–202	202
Chapter-12-The-Debugger	The Debugger	203–210	203
Chapter-13-Keyboard-Service	Keyboard Service	211–222	211, 222
Chapter-14-File-System-Service	File System Service	223–242	223
Chapter-15-API-Specification	API Specification	243–286	243, 286
Chapter-16-MMURTL-Sample-Software	MMURTL Sample Software	287–346	287
Chapter-17-Introduction-to-the-Source-Code	Introduction to the Source Code	347–356	347, 348, 349, 356
Chapter-18-Kernel-Code	Kernel Code	357–398	357, 398
Chapter-19-Memory-Management-Code	Memory Management Code	399–426	399
Chapter-20-Timer-Management-Code	Timer Management Code	427–440	427
Chapter-21-Initialization-Code	Initialization Code	441–460	441
Chapter-22-Job-Management-Code	Job Management Code	461–492	461, 492
Chapter-23-Debugger-Code	Debugger Code	493–518	493
Chapter-24-Selected-Device-Driver-Code	Selected Device Driver Code	519–562	519
Chapter-25-Keyboard-Code	Keyboard Code	563–592	563
Chapter-26-Video-Code	Video Code	593–612	593
Chapter-27-File-System-Code	File System Code	613–682	613
Chapter-28-DASM-A-32-Bit-Intel-Based-Assembler	DASM: A 32-Bit Intel-Based Assembler	683–718	683, 684
Chapter-29-CM32-A-32-Bit-C-Compiler	CM32: A 32-Bit C Compiler	719–740	719
Back-Matter	Index, publisher ads, CD-ROM installation and contents, back cover	741–772	741, 764, 766, 769

Pages without text, all checked visually: each is a Part or chapter title plate, a blank verso, or a blank ad page, so no content is lost and no OCR is needed.

OCR caveats: The text is the scan's OCR, so expect broken spacing, character errors (e.g. l/I/1, () read as Q or O in function names), and garbled source listings. Diagrams inside text pages are images that the text layer does not capture. When a figure or a listing's exact characters matter, check that PDF page.