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From: craig@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Craig Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Implementing a multitasking OS on top of UNIX
Message-ID: <1991May10.203406.5290@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: 10 May 91 20:34:06 GMT
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In article <19260@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>
>I'm torn between saying your should be flunked for asking the
>net, which I think is cheating, or given an A for asking the
>net, which is what real people do when stumped ...
>

I don't think it is cheating at all.  I didn't ask anybody for source code,
I just asked for ideas.  Like you said, I was stumped, so I went to the net
for resources, because I knew I could find them.  

The results I received from my question were not any step by step details
on how to do the project, but mostly like the answer I got from you, saying
that I was making the problem too complex.  As it turns out, you were
right, and it now seems fairly simple to me.  So, the only knowledge I
gained from the net was stuff that I really could not have learned from a
book, after all, my text book was what overwhelmed me in th first place.

I also received some good ideas about using the SunOS LWP library to do the
project.  All in all, I learned more than if I had not asked the question,
and that is the reason I'm going to college in the first place.


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