Stone Knives and Bear Skins: There is no money in tools.

The article provides an answer to a question concerning the tools available to debug an operating system (OS). Topics include the limitations and areas of improvement of systems software, and a brief discussion of debugging tools available for operating systems.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 66; no. 10; pp. 27 - 30
Main Author: Neville-Neil, George V.
Format: Question & Answer
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2023
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