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From: sp@mirabeau.osf.fr (Simon Patience)
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Subject: Re: Publisher and Release Date For Mach Book ?
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Date: 27 Jun 91 08:18:31 GMT
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In article <32674@dime.cs.umass.edu>, nahum@unreal.cs.umass.edu (Erich
Nahum) writes:
> In article <1991Jun26.182905.11834@cherokee.uswest.com>
naim@prairie.uswest.com (Naim Abdullah) writes:
> >I have heard of a forthcoming book on Mach:
> >
> >  	"The Design of the Mach Operating system"
> >                         by
> >  	N. Bitar, A. Langermann and E. Sheinbrood
> 
> How can a book with this title not have Rick Rashid on the author list?
> 
> I've read a lot of Mach papers, but I haven't heard of these people.  
> Perhaps they're from Mt. Xinu?
> 
> Wouldn't it make sense that people who actually did work on the system, 
> like Tevanian, Young, Golub, Fitzgerald (OK, Accent), and Black, be 
> involved with the book?
> 
> Seriously though, perhaps someone at CMU can comment as to the
> authenticity of this book, the authors' involvement, etc.

Well I am not from CMU but I will comment anyway.

Nawaf Bitar: HP Apollo, started the internal Mach project in Apollo,
worked for the OSF Research Institute which is working closely with CMU
on Mach 3. Apart from having worked extensively with Mach, he has also
given many Usenix/Europen and the like tutorials on the system.

A. Langermann: Encore computer. One of the Architects of Encores release
of Mach which has parallelised the BSD part. He also works extensively
with OSF/1 particularly with file system and MP issues.

Eric Shienbrood: One of the architects of OSF/1. It would probably be
quicker to least the areas he did not contribute to in OSF/1 and the
Mach kernel does not fall into that list!

All three have excellent credentials for writing this book as they have
extensive experience with Mach itself and implementing systems using
Mach. This is not a perfect resume of these peoples careers and I
apologize for any important omissions but these peoples knowledge of
Mach is not lacking.

  Simon Patience
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