Mac OS X Internals Review

October 9, 2006

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I've been waiting quite a while for this book. It was the introduction of the Intel Macs that delayed this; an appendix and numerous updates throughout the book cover the new hardware and the software changes (that's the August 2006 printing; if you are buying used and want the Intel info, don't buy the June 2006 edition). This is quite a book. It covers everything from hardware on up. It's of course not a user's reference, but although it is probably of most interest to programmers (and especially system level programmers), I think advanced administrators will also find this to be a rich resource. You will need some background in Unix internals and C programming for parts of it, and computer hardware knowledge for other parts, but even if you are fairly light in those areas this book will have knowledge to offer. There's a lot of example code here to show you how things work. That code, and sample chapters, can be found at