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From: dan@rsch.wisc.edu (Daniel M. Frank)
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Subject: Re: new UNIX book
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In article <674@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP> jack@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 bought it, and I think it's a pretty good introduction.  I needed to
do some light kernel hacking, and found it a very helpful overview of the 
areas I was working on.  It contains general information on data structures
and algorithms in System V and some other, and some intro to new Release 3
features.

   I don't know Comer's book, so I can't compare the two.

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      Dan Frank

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