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...@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP> j
...@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP (Jack Campin) writes:
>>-I just spotted this in the local university bookshop:
>>- The Design of the UNIX Operating System
>>- Maurice J. Bach
>>- Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0 13 201799 7, costs a bundle.
>>-Anyone out there read it yet?
>>-Is it any good?
>>-Does it add much to what's in Comer's book?
>I'm about 1/4 the way thru it; highly recomended!!! I've also got
>Comer's book, which is also good, but not really unix. This is heavily
>slanted towards sys5 with some bsd thrown in and very up-to-date (sys5.3,
>bsd4.3). Well worth the money.
--
>Stu Heiss {ihnp4!jpusa1!stu}
I agree completely with Stu. This book is very good; though it doesn't
go into enough detail in some areas. Personally, I would've liked to
have seen a more in-depth treatment of device drivers. But it is well
worth the ~$40.
We are recommending this book to people who want to use our linkkit,
to develop their own UNIX device drivers.
If you are a college student, and want to get an in-depth education
in the internals of UNIX, you should get this book, an IBM AT,
and a copy of our System V source code for the AT (from your university).
You can then explore UNIX to your heart's content.
I wish I had this back in the V6/V7 days. We should start seeing much
more sophisticated graduates in the years to come. If John Dvorak thought
that hell broke loose in the early 80's, he ain't seen nothing yet!!
Dwight Leu {ihnp4, amd, hplabs}!pesnta!scc!dwight
Microport Systems
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