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2025-03-21 · 370 points · 54 comments · 4 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.

  1. 4Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

    Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

    Tanenbaum

    4 here · 22 all-time · #279 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 721 ratings on Amazon
  2. 3xv6

    xv6

    3 here · 4 all-time · #1916 overall

  3. 2Project Oberon

    Project Oberon

    Niklaus Wirth

    2 here · 4 all-time · #1837 overall

  4. 1

    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

    Harold Abelson

    1 here · 316 all-time · #2 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 742 ratings on Amazon