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I wish this resource existed 10-15 years ago. I remember scavenging the internet for information about OS development, assembly and everything.

I think in the end the best resource I found was something called "DS-OS", a basic assembly OS implementation. Looks like it's online at http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22083

This stuff got me into lower-level (than VB) computer programming-- good memories.

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In the bad old days, 1976 and on, we used this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6th...

Unfortunately it was essentially samizdat until 1996. But it's an excellent work, and e.g. taught me pointers when the K&R chapter on pointers and arrays didn't work for me.

Tanenbaum's ineffable "Operating Systems Design and Implementation" and MINIX (a learning OS) existed then, and was what Linus Torvalds studied before creating Linux:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131429388

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