"Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System, a Compiler, and a Computer" by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht

I have the orginal hardbound 1992 edition [0], but it looks like there is a 2013 revision available as a collection of pdfs [1]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Project-Oberon-Design-Operating-Compi... [1] https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html

You are unlikely to encounter Oberon in the wild, but this book is the clearest and most elegant exposition of a systems design I have seen. They walk through the code for a complete operating system from hardware drivers to file system, compiler, graphic user interface and everything else in less than 10,000 lines of code. The focus on modularity and minimalism is very refreshing.

The book "Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler" https://www.amazon.com/Project-Oberon-Design-Operating-Compi... contains a detailed explanation of the design for the Oberon compiler and operating system. Not only it is well written with clear explanations, but it also includes the full source code for the compiler and operating system in less than 550 pages!

I learned some interesting compiler techniques from reading that book.

The book "Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler" http://www.amazon.com/Project-Oberon-Design-Operating-Compil... contains a detailed explanation of the design for the Oberon compiler and operating system. Not only it is well written with clear explanations, but it also includes the full source code for the compiler and operating system in less than 550 pages!

I learned some interesting compiler techniques from reading that book.

Fwiw, ETH Zurich (where Oberon was developed) ships emulated versions of the Project Oberon operating system that can run under various modern platforms: http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/

Wirth and his collaborator Jürg Gutknecht also wrote a book about the project: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201544288/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...