Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: burgess%creek.decnet@hsdp1.brooks.af.mil (CREEK::BURGESS) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Where is Minix headed? Message-ID: <33630@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 16 Oct 90 14:57:59 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 21 In Mon, 15 Oct 90 17:21:40 GMT, Daniel Pezely writes: >>From: Andy Tanenbaum >>Subject: Re: Where is MINIX headed? >> >>We have gone through this before. It is just not technically feasible. >>The "hook" for virtual memory or shared text or most other proposals >>is pages of code all over the place. This kind of "hook" makes the code >>incomprehensible for the students. >>My idea of a hook consist of 3 lines of code: >I do understand what you're saying, but what about the students who >want to learn about more advanced features of a high performance os? (lines deleted...) >Andy, you have a good os book for undergrads. Now, as an encore, how >about a book for the grad student level? >But I'm sure you've been asked this many times before... >-cowboy dan Hear, hear... Dave Burgess