Mach's concepts.

Meet Mach by James Scott, a summary of Mach's history and main concepts.

The GNU Mach Reference Manual.

M. Accetta, R. Baron, W. Bolosky, D. Golub, R. Rashid, A. Tevanian, and M. Young, Mach: A New Kernel Foundation for UNIX Development, USENIX Conference Proceedings, July 1986. Paper [pdf].

R. Rashid, A. Tevanian, M. Young, D. Golub, and R. Baron, Machine-Independent Virtual Memory Management for Paged Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor Architectures, 2nd ACM Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), October 1987. Paper [pdf], presentation [ppt].

Mach 3 Kernel Principles. Open Software Foundation and Carnegie Mellon University. Keith Loepere. NORMA-MK12: July 15, 1992. Book [ps (HTTP)], [ps (FTP)].

Mach 3 Kernel Interfaces. Open Software Foundation and Carnegie Mellon University. Keith Loepere, Editor. NORMA-MK12: July 15, 1992. Book [ps (HTTP)], [ps (FTP)].

Mach 3 Server Writer’s Guide. Open Software Foundation and Carnegie Mellon University. Keith Loepere, Editor. NORMA-MK12, user15: July 15, 1992. Book [ps (HTTP)], [ps (FTP)].

Mach 3 Server Writer’s Interfaces. Open Software Foundation and Carnegie Mellon University. Keith Loepere, Editor. NORMA-MK12, user15: July 15, 1992. Book [ps (HTTP)], [ps (FTP)].

The Unofficial GNU Mach IPC beginner's guide, an easy introduction to Inter Process Comunication in the Mach microkernel by Manuel Pavón Valderrama.

Mach IPC without MIG, an exercise by Neal Walfield to understand Mach IPC at one of its lowest application levels.

• ipc-hello.c: Hello world à la mach ipc.

Porting and Modifying the Mach 3.0 Microkernel

An IO System for Mach

A Programmers' Guide to Mach System Call