MMURTL-V1.0 - was originally published by SAMS Computer Books (a division of MacMillan Publishing) and it is a "How someone did it" book. It is not, and never was intended as a college text. The original publisher touted it as a "How To" book, and quite frankly, there is enough information in it to allow a competent programmer familiar with C and Assembler to build their own OS by choosing a platform, a tasking model, a memory model, and an execution plan and "just do it!" I know of one company that now uses a "little MMURTL" in an embedded system, and I know several people that still work on their own MMURTL incarnations. Most of the text discusses the code the beginning of the project and then goes into the code in some detail.

Shown to the left as originally printed, it was previously titled "Developing Your own 32 Bit Operating System" (ISBN 0-672-30655-7).



When Sensory Publishing gained the rights, they changed the name and they printed another run of a thousand to keep it available in print. They are down to 200 copies or so and no longer sell it. The book is now in the public domain and any books will be kept for the Great Alexandria Library.



The last version published was titled MMURTL-V1.0 (ISBN 1-58853-000-0) and was an 8.5" x 11" "Perfect Bind" soft cover, now out of print, of course.. It was renamed because this is the name that the author had originally intended (and the other name actually belongs to MacMillan publishing). MMURTL is a bad acronym for Message based MUltitasking Real Time kerneL ("Hey... all the good acronyms were already taken!"). The PDF ebook is approximately 2.7 Mb (available above). The MMURTL PDF requires a PDF reader.

