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My copy of Amit's book was delivered today and it is impressive. With 1641 pages, this is the OS X "bible" for me. It really has little to do with programming, but is rather a detailed analysis of OS X (including historical and comparative aspects).

 

This book should be a perquisite for anyone seriously interested in hacking OS X. It has hundred page chapters on firmware and bootloader, memory and HFS+. About half the book is directly related to the kernel.

 

My only real criticism so far is that the book is a little weak on x86 coverage. Just a ten page appendix is tacked on the back for x86, while Amit's analysis of the G5 Mac gets a full hundred page chapter.

 

The books table of contents are here: http://www.osxbook.com/book/toc/toc.html

 

The reviews at Amazon are unanimous with five stars: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032127854...1139155?ie=UTF8

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I bet he's been working on this for several years, thus the small place for x86.

 

I bet in a year or so there'll be a revised edition updated for x86.

 

EDIT: Thread cleaned up on request of Addison Wesley, the publisher.

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OS X Kernel Hacking 101?

 

Amit Singh to hold workshop at San Francisco Apple Store at noon on Thursday:

 

Mac OS X Internals Workshop (San Francisco)

FYI:

 

I will be holding a Mac OS X Internals workshop on Thursday, August 10th, 12:00 noon at the San Francisco Apple Store. This is a part of Apple’s “WWDC: Meet the Authors” line of Apple-store events.

 

http://osxbook.com/blog/2006/08/02/mac-os-...-san-francisco/

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