Open-source systems programming textbookUIUC
Not a better
wikibook.
A cited one.
An introductory systems programming textbook used by CS 341 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It builds on Angrave’s original wikibook experiment — and its stated goal is to improve the factualness, not just the prose.
The apparatus
this is the stated upgrade-
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Citations
Claims point somewhere. The original wikibook mostly did not.
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Footnotes
The caveat lives on the same page as the claim it qualifies.
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Extended reading
Where to go when the chapter stops being enough.
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Glossary
One definition per term, in one place, for a whole book.
Illustrative — unsourced prose
A process is an instance of a running program, and the kernel keeps a record for each one. Processes are created by copying an existing process.
Illustrative — the same claim, with apparatus
A process is an instance of a running program, and the kernel keeps a record for each one.1 Processes are created by copying an existing process2 — see extended reading.
1 citation · 2 footnote: the copy is lazy in practice. Terms in italics resolve in the glossary.
Three exports from one source, built automatically — the project states the point plainly: so writers can focus on writing. The two sample paragraphs above are illustrative, written to show the difference apparatus makes; they are not quoted from the book.