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From: J.Crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Jon Crowcroft)
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Subject: Re: was: the BSD lpd protocol? Stevens' Book
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Date: 31 Jul 90 13:14:14 GMT
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 >Quarterman, John S., The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX
 >Operating System, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1.

 >Bach, M.J., The Design of the UNIX Operating System, Prentice-Hall,
 >Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1986.

 John,

useful references, i agree; i meant its a shame there isnt anything of
the level of detail of stevens' book for kernel work (i.e. Comer's
xinu, Tanenbaum's minix,  the old Lions version 6 unix text...level of
detail and annotated source; perhaps a book on Amoeba or MACH would be
instructive in OS and Comms terms, but i meant something useful for
the profssional programmer right now) 

 >>the structure is very similar to a course i teach on comms. software,
 >>and i think i'm gonna recommend it as a base text....

 >Case in point....

 the course i teach is a UK university course, and therefore *free* to
uk people who meet the entry requirements...