The book also covers several key areas of the Intel-based Macintosh computers. You will learn how these pieces connect and work internally, where they originated, and how they evolved. For example, you will learn the roles of the firmware, the bootloader, the Mach and BSD kernel components (including the process, virtual memory, IPC, and file system layers), the object-oriented I/O Kit driver framework, user libraries, and other core pieces of software. Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach is the first book that dissects the internals of the system, presenting a detailed picture that grows incrementally as you read. Understanding the design, implementation, and workings of Mac OS X requires examination of several technologies that differ in their age, origins, philosophies, and roles. Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional Pub Date: JPrint ISBN-10: 4-2 Print ISBN-13: 978-4-8 Pages: 1680 Table of Contents Mac OS X was released in March 2001, but many components, such as Mach and BSD, are considerably older. Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach By Amit Singh.
