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What book about OSX internals can you recommend?

There's http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321278542/ but it looks a bit dated. Specificaly, it talks about bits that are no longer in use (powerpc bootloader for example) on modern machines.

So, my question really is: is there any other book, as comprehensive and detailed as this one?

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No, but it's still a great book. The internal hasn't changed that much; once you get the broad idea by reading that book, you can directly go to http://opensource.apple.com/ and read the latest kernel source code without problems.

Yuji  2010-08-12 00:34:54
That's more or less my concern with that book; how much of that book consists of outdated information, and how much is still useful. I guess I should simply hunt it down on some sale... :)
yacoob  2010-08-14 17:48:23
Some of the discussion is outdated, but I can definitely say that every page is still useful :) Even the outdated part doesn't give you a wonrg idea what's going on inside, because nothing fundamental hasn't changed. You need to buy one. You don't regret.
Yuji  2010-08-14 17:58:07
The changes between say, PowerPC and X86 are confined to relatively small portions of the code, I doubt you would find yourself having trouble navigating the source of modern OSX if you throughly understand prior versions.
Daniel Goldberg  2010-09-19 20:06:48

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